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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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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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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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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible. – Lewis Mumford

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I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other peoples writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other peoples fiction. Just dont. – Laurell K. Hamilton

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I felt that chess… is a science in the form of a game… I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist. – Bobby Fischer

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Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe. – Bill Frist

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I dont want a huge wedding. I dont want it to be some huge spectacle. – Kristin Cavallari

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The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination. – Gaetano Salvemini, Historian and Scientist

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