#rely

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#any #fiction #heart #job #kind

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#doing #find #funny #funny things #gardening

Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time. ↗

— Gale Norton

#going #human #human beings #long #long time

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together. ↗

— Kim Novak

#easier #else #go #go away #i

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#been #degree #describing #future #historical

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#assumptions #been #describe #embodies #even

I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that. ↗

— Gary Numan

#ago #album #been #called #constant

My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#analysis #cell #controlling #crucial #cycle

The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#bread #charity #colleagues #dotted #dry

Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#basic idea #child #chooses #create #deliberately