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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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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years. – Bill Condon

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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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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction. – Jack Vance

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Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental superlaws, but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science. – Paul Davies

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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. – Lord Byron

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