#he

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#buddy #different #english #fiction #john

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#author #computer #computer program #construct #him

Mathematicians are born, not made. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#made #mathematicians

So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#certain #confirm #formulated #implied #language

I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#hurmor #margaret-mitchell #rhett #romance #scarlett

My father was very big on marriage. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#father #marriage #very

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling. ↗

— Roman Polanski

#feeling #get #happy #i #i always

Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information. ↗

— John Pomfret

#difficult #get #hearts #information #more

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign. ↗

— James K. Polk

#become #cease #close #heartily #i

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#more #objective #quantum #sense #simply