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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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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ↗

— 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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A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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