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

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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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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble. – Benjamin Disraeli

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We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school. – Mark Kennedy

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The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work. – Geezer Butler

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The first step… shall be to lose the way. – Galway Kinnell

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