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Theres no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to wri

Theres no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives. – David Brin

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Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. – David Brin

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Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. Ive had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam… and Im not happy to be right in all of those cases. – David Brin

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I dont really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything. – Sigourney Weaver

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Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. – Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972

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That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization. – Charles E. Wilson

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It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today its energy. Its the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see. – Josef Albers

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