Book Quote by Frederik Pohl Download Open image “I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.” — Frederik Pohl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Chasing Pleasure Science Spectators Sports
I'm learning the science behind the sport. I'm learning how to read people. — Travis Browne Copy Share Image
Science is a hobby, and I'm really into it, but it's not my job. My job is to learn about comedy and to make… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
“Life is not a spectator sport. Build a career as a pioneer and inspirational force of good leading the way for others to follow… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
I've always had the notion that people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it… — Walter Wellesley Smith Copy Share Image
Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby. — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
As a professional, I get in a dilemma between sport and entertainment. There's these two sides. — Lyoto Machida Copy Share Image
Life may not be a spectator sport but many spend time watching it go by. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself. — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
“There are people who never pass a certain point in their emotional development. They cannot live a normal free-and-easy, give-and-take life with a sexual… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“If a picture on the wall can remember, you remember that this is not the first time. If a picture on the wall can… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Wealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“You asked me, 'Do you call this living?" And I answer: Yes, it is exactly what I call living. And in my best hypothetical… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image