#meth

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#method #reconstruction #science #science fiction

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#had #i #knew #learned #miami

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#also #contrary #essential #general #grafted

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#course #earth #evolution #here #life

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#best #best work #date #do your best #else

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#basement #disgusted #i #just #make

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#art #film #grow #grow up #i

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#comic writing #finding #funny #funny way #i

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#attempt #believing #change #change the world #choose

I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#bothering #could #done #get #i