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We're more interested in the editor of this Astounding Science Fiction. General Groves sent me to ask that someone who knows more about this work you're doing interview this"--he glanced at a card--"John W. Campbell."
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Science is about continuity of ideas, a web of connections.
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Y'know, fact that nobody understands you doesn't mean you're some kinda genius.
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I started out with nothing and still have most of it left.
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She had once looked up the term 'lawyer' and found it was someone who helped you fight laws.
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Gregory Benford |
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When you have a Ph. D., you call them hypotheses, not guesses.
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Wars don't determine who's right, only who's left.
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She could not understand why people feared new ideas. She was frightened by the old ones.
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Talkers never acted when they could talk.
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Must admit it felt good. First time in years anybody ever admitted I was right.
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But the answers come when they will, one piece at a time.
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Thunder impresses, but it's lightning does the work.
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The role of boredom in human history is underrated.
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Schools praised diversity but were culturally the same. Different skin color, same opinions.
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Marches don't stop markets.
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Manufacturing creates wealth, services distribute it.
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He didn't regret growing older, it was a privilege denied to many.
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Boundaries got redrawn at the point of a sword, and the legal frame followed.
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Disintegration of structure equals information loss.
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They will do anything for the worker, except become one.
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The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa."
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Only fools get to join.
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At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.
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To shine is better than to reflect.
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There was something about such reflex stupidity that never failed to irritate him.
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Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.
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Somehow to them, the press was always the judge of things scientific.
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Free will again," Cathy said."Or free won't," Peterson said mildly.
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Religions do not teach doubt.
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Gregory Benford |
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No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.
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The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.
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Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.
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Every boy knows he is immortal, but his parents, they are not so sure.
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Gregory Benford |
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Man doesn't have to take a gamble just 'cause it's there. You got to learn that.
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There's plenty--""Plenty is exactly what there's none of."
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Soldiers for equality, uh? Glad you warned me. I'd have thought you were just thieves.
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The past was a jigsaw puzzle and you never had all the pieces.
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Maybe is not a theory, you know, it is merely maybe.
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Just because something's crazy, doesn't mean it's wrong.
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Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.
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Engineers never liked the unexplained, whereas physicists lived for it.
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Gregory Benford |
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Teaching was all very fine, but research made the heart sing.
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So he looks like a potential Mr. Right?""No, just Mr. Right Now."
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The problem with the unknown was its lack of road signs.
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