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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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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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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. – 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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Reason, Observation, and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters. – Ivan Reitman

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Weapons of mass destruction arent pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. Theyre produced in factories. Theres science and technology involved. Theyre not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement. – Scott Ritter

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Theres a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science. – Andrew Bird

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