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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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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesnt matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state. – Iain Banks

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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. – Heinrich Heine

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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 has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. – Kary Mullis

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I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we wont destroy ourselves in other ways. – Richard Eyre

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize. – James Joyce

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No useful man has time to go back and rub out his unfortunate foot prints. – Author unknown, from Dallas-Galveston News, c.1894

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped and bundled in bulk, in different flavors for different tastes. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

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