Quote by Iain Banks
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at r

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. – 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
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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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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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legal
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The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. – William Lawrence Bragg

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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a mans upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Science

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. – Abdul Kalam

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Science

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Readers Digest… I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything. – Gary Coleman

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Science

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