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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. — Margaret Atwood
Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people. — Margaret Atwood
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that… — Margaret Atwood
I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction;… — Margaret Atwood
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways… — Margaret Atwood
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — Wystan Hugh Auden
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. — Saint Augustine
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. — Marcus Aurelius
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind,… — Marcus Aurelius
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. — Dan Aykroyd
A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is… — Charles Babbage
To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other… — Charles Babbage
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. — Irving Babbitt
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the… — Edward Bach
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. — Gaston Bachelard
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton

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