#sci

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities. ↗

— Judith Butler

#centers #constitute #disciplinary #displacement #marginal

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#anything #attracted #because #condition #examining

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#back #because #become #biological #bit

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. ↗

— David Byrne

#common #fascinated #form #just #nothing

I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part. ↗

— David Byrne

#answer #artistically #artists #asking #been

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. ↗

— James M. Cain

#any #called #conscious #conscious effort #effort

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us. ↗

— William Feather

#ourselves #us #will #world

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#conflict #drama #fascinating #human #human condition

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well. ↗

— Melvin Calvin

#his #i #influences #least #liberty

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ↗

— Bruce Feirstein

#between #distance #genius #insanity #measured