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People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great). ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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