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science views scientific-method
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction. Auguste Comte
science reality technology
Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. Arthur Koestler
science mathematical-logic ideas
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. Bertrand Russell
science supposing-that forever
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new. Calvin Coolidge
science would-be mould
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty. Charles Darwin
science son progress
But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress. Janet Suzman
science writer
The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary. Hanya Yanagihara
science virtue all-things
All things happen by virtue of necessity. Democritus
science deities evolution
Midway from Nothing to the Deity! Edward Young
fiction remember stranger
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. Arthur C. Clarke
fiction honest aim
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. Anton Chekhov
fiction easy tales
How easy it is to tell tales! Denis Diderot
fiction life love whether
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life. Abraham Verghese
fiction realizing social
What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time. Doris Lessing
fiction ground los reality
What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles. Michael Connelly
fiction documentaries directors
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life. Alfred Hitchcock
fiction movement crafts
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. Raymond Carver
fiction fantasy science-fiction
Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen. Ray Bradbury
critics ignore question rather studios useful weaknesses youth
This is a question of the critics being useful to the studios. When it's youth movies, studios really don't want their weaknesses highlighted and would rather the critics ignore them. That's going to continue.
critics minimal quite
That's not quite what the critics had in mind. This is minimal change. Larry Sabato
critics fans ourselves trying
We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more. Johnny Knoxville
critics-and-criticism degraded trade trades
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades Mark Twain
critics
Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics. Anthony Burgess
critics statues
There are no statues erected to critics. Tim Ferriss
critics dressing dull feed taste
Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing Lord Chesterfield
critics deeply few gaze paranoid politics
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics, but we gaze upon innovation with rapturous adulation.
critics havens asks
I'm probably my biggest critic. There's nothing anyone can ask of me that I haven't already asked of myself. Jhene Aiko