Quote by Iain Banks
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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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesnt matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state. – Iain Banks

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Technology
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I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something youre frightened of is to make fun of it. Thats why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds. – Iain Banks

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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. – Heinrich Heine

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and Im not sure about the former. – Albert Einstein

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I really like being pregnant. Not that there arent things I dont love, but when I think about what my body is doing – creating a child – it just blows my mind. Im in awe of the process and science. – Emily Deschanel

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There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. – Charles Pierce

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