Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Not everyone agrees the bears should be protected. Hunters, oil interests, even the state of Alaska has questions about the effects protection… — Sam Champion Copy Share Image
“When you let go of expectations and make room for exploration, real achievement can happen. You live in flow and everything in… — Tina Leigh Copy Share Image
I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
“But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“It is possible to be too stable. No Outer World has colonized a new planet in two and a half centuries.. are… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I think the sci-fi world allows for exploration of that that isn't on the nose and that isn't preachy, but it's kind… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
Blade Runner is a rare science fiction movie so full of material that pages can be written about it without scratching the… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
NEEMO missions are a challenging and exciting aspect of astronaut training. The research we conduct during those missions allows us to test… — Jeremy Hansen Copy Share Image
Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Each budgets reflect our priorities, reflect our principles, reflect our vision. We believe in balancing the budget. We believe in getting government… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield… — Bruce Mau Copy Share Image
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In my other books, things do happen, but they are kind of bookends to the real action, which for me was an… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors,… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
We don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things because we're curious...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you're picking a project to pursue, try not to think of it as some massive commitment. Can you think of it… — Emilie Wapnick Copy Share Image
The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a… — Kat Edmonson Copy Share Image
Growing up, I felt there was nothing my dad couldn't do, but didn't get the chance to do when we moved. I… — Justin Lin Copy Share Image
But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural… — Laurie Holden Copy Share Image
First and foremost, note that Plato always wrote dialogues, and never attempted to produce a theoretical or scientific treatise. This is a… — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
“Decreasing the budget on the space exploration is nothing but a great treason to humanity! Space exploration is closely related to our… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on… — F. R. Scott Copy Share Image
For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point… — Donald A. Wollheim Copy Share Image
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