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A lot of what the Culture is about is a reaction to all the scienc

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

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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

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

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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. – Iain Banks

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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself. – Edwin Land

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In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. Its so schizophrenic. – Jonathan Carroll

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Science

Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you dont need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech. – Susan Wojcicki

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Science does not know its debt to imagination. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man. – John Dryden

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Death was like love, a romantic escape. – Brigitte Bardot

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We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, thats when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesnt sound insincere. – Nate Ruess

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