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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolutio

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. – Iain Banks

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Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. – Iain Banks

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A lot of what the Culture is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens. – Iain Banks

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I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting. – Donald Norman

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Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts. – George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty, 1896

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Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. – Thomas Huxley

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We didnt set out to be educators or even scientists, and we dont purport that what we do is real science but were demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity. – Adam Savage

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