Logo
Quote by Iain Banks
I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightene

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

Other quotes by Iain Banks

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

Category:
legal
Author
Iain Banks
Read Quote

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. – Iain Banks

Category:
Science
Author
Iain Banks
Read Quote

A lot of what the Culture is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens. – Iain Banks

Category:
Science
Author
Iain Banks
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Science
category

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860

Category:
Science

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. – Irving Langmuir

Category:
Science

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life. – Samuel Alexander

Category:
Science

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science. – Edward Sapir

Category:
Science

Random Quotes

We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

Category:
Friendship

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. – Hannah Arendt

Category:
Death

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on. – Proverb

Category:
Business

If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

Category:
Angels