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Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. ↗

— Coleridge

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Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late. The schedule is a little, uh, bit off." He grinned sheepishly. "That's ridiculous!" murmured the Ticktockman behind his mask. "Check your watch." And then he went into his office, going mrmee, mrmee, mrmee, mrmee. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego. ↗

— David Brin

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It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man's own pointless existence. (p. 4) ↗

— Thomas Merton

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Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended. ↗

— Mark Hodder

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Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. ↗

— Rod Sterling

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The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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Without ethics, science would be cruelty. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

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