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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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But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, Ill bet youll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science. – David Brin

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually its more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. – 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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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. – Donald Knuth

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I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then Id go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories. – Kevin J. Anderson

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Your theory is crazy, but its not crazy enough to be true. – Niels Bohr

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When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didnt have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into. – Terri Windling

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