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" In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring. "
Gregory Benford
Art
End
Boring
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" Star Trek's insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereotypes who could supply the emotional frame for the potentially jarring truths of these distant places. "
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" The moon's closeness is a huge advantage: To make it habitable, we would first have to bombard it with water-ice comets, a tricky endeavor best attempted with the many resources waiting on and near Earth. "
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" My brother Jim and I shared a womb without a view for nine months. "
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" The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast - Mississippi, Alabama and so on. "
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" I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects. "
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Felt
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" Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else. "
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" The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong. "
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" I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident. "
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Together
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" Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency. "
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Came
Congress
" You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you. "
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You
" Because I've been a full professor doing research and lecturing at the University of California, I didn't have a lot of time to write, so I have always used my unconscious a great deal to do the really heavy lifting. "
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Doing
Research
Time
" Genre pleasures are many, but the quality of shared values within an ongoing discussion may be the most powerful, enlisting lifelong devotion in its fans. "
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" The talk shows I've done are all radio for exactly this reason: I don't want to wear a rubber mask. "
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Talk
Want
Done
" As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one - that's how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that 'text,' tinker with traits - play God, some would say. "
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Book
You
School
" Indeed, the history of 20th century physics was in large measure about how to avoid the infinities that crop up in particle theory and cosmology. The idea of point particles is convenient but leads to profound, puzzling troubles. "
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Measure
History
Physics
" To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond. "
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New
Beyond
Even
" 'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety. "
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Thoughtful
Leaving
Star
" Terraforming our moon will take many decades and vast abilities. Before we can begin, we'll have to master the resources of our solar system - especially transporting raw masses over interplanetary distances. "
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Over
Solar
" The Matrix itself is not some external evil, but rather an outcome of our own error, our karmic payoff of past actions. Not merely illusion, it is an allusion to a founding myth of our culture. "
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Evil
Own
Past
" Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings. "
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Our
Losing
Past
" Aging is mostly the failure to repair. "
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Mostly
Failure
Aging
" Experience shows that if you put more ethicists on a problem, you can end up with more problems. "
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You
Problems
Experience
" Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish. "
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" This was the 1940s; there was no television. It was a different age - it was not swamped by media; it was swamped by reality, and storytelling was a very big art where I came from. "
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Television
Reality
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" Very little useful science got done in the space station. NASA never did the experiments needed to develop the technologies required for a genuine interplanetary expedition: centrifugal gravity to avoid bodily harm and a truly closed biosphere. "
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Done
Space
" It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far away in terms of mechanical features. So you can make a flying car. But they are not very good planes, and they are not very good cars. "
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" In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil for 25 years, and he was always getting onto me, a scientist. He was a great fan of quantum uncertainty, epistemology in science, the lot. "
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Always
Uncertainty
Science
" Science fiction writers didn't predict the fade-out of NASA's manned space operations, and they weren't prepared with alternative routes to space when that decline became undeniable. "
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Space
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Science Fiction
" In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They color the sea brown and green where deltas form from big rivers, or cities dump their sewage. Tiny yet hugely important, plankton govern how well the sea harvests the sun's bounty, and so are the foundation of the ocean's food chain. "
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Sea
Ocean
Sun
" Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite. "
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