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Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have…
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I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from…
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. ... Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology,…
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I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
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Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion…
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We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has…
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I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that…
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Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe,…
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It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.
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The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe…
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We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into…
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Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish…
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The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors,…
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Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every…
— Vernor Vinge
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Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.
— Randy Alcorn
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Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
— Michael Dirda
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The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms…
— William A. Dembski
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I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation…
— Richard K. Morgan
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I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries…
— Alfred Bester
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and…
— Hannes Alfven
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The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a…
— Jamais Cascio
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It is possible to claim only through extrapolation, by abstracting, by redrawing the man from his voyage of his own imaginary Destiny…
— Sorin Cerin
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