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title: "4 Pop Science Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [“The fact that an astronomer knows so little about the inherent uncertainties in different scientific disciplines suggests to me that our current…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/the-fact-that-an-astronomer-knows-so-little-about-the-inherent/)

[Roy Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-spencer/)

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> [Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/pop-science-goes-flying-off-in-all-kinds-of-fashionable-directions/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

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> [I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/talulah-riley/i-got-into-physics-through-pop-science-and-quantum-science-and-ended/)

[Talulah Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/talulah-riley/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65f/talulah-riley-24098_being_i-got-into-physics-through-pop-science-a_1709661.jpg)

> [For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-ritchie/for-books-i-don-t-read-much-fiction-but-like-travel-essays-and-good/)

[Dennis Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-ritchie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fc/dennis-ritchie-13863_book_for-books-i-don-t-read-much-fiction-but_2670618.jpg)

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