"Its limitations are those of the physical universe:……" — Stanley Schmidt
"Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about."
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Stanley Schmidt
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20 Quotes by Stanley Schmidt
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Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story…
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I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent,…
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Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking…
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There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully…
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There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because…
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When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes,…
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This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes…
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I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it,…
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Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering…
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What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we…
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Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background,…
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As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least…
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely…
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.
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I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you…
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when…
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
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Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people…
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I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.
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