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I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#film #make #reasons #sometimes #very

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#care #ellison #enough #fiction #hard

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#both #convenient #dispense #doubt #equally

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor. ↗

— John Poindexter

#certainly #controversial #difficult #discourse #election

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States. ↗

— John Poindexter

#applying #awareness #because #beginning #counterterrorism

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives. ↗

— John Poindexter

#enough #experiments #failure #failures #get

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#i #images #knew #me #movie

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#because #extraordinary #feel #had #i

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#examples #fidelity #friends #full #histories