Quote by Octavia Butler
The thing about science fiction is that its totally wide open. But

The thing about science fiction is that its totally wide open. But its wide open in a conditional way. – Octavia Butler

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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadnt had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. – Octavia Butler

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Hope
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No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest. – Octavia Butler

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Science
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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. – Octavia Butler

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Science
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. – Rene Descartes

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Science

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. – Sally Ride

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Science

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. – Joseph Rotblat

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Science

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. – Jules Verne

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Science

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Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. – Ludwig van Beethoven

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I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great. – Jacques Pepin

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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes. – Herbert Agar

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