"I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and……" — Elizabeth Moon
"I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting."
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47 Quotes by Elizabeth Moon
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Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes…
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Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
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But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are…
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Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
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I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.
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I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
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I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as…
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I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.
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I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
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I used to not back down from a challenge.
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I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
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What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is…
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Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a…
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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto…
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No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know…
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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative…
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Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part;…
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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them…
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Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of…
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Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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