philosophizing Science is scientifically what so called Philosophy .
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
It is a fact of life that oversimplified accounts of the development of science are often necessary in its teaching. Most scientific progress is a messy, complex and slow process; only with the hindsight of an overall understanding of a phenomenon ca...
To the rocket scientist, you are a problem. You are the most irritating piece of machinery he or she will ever have to deal with. You and your fluctuating metabolism, your puny memory, your frame that comes in a million different configurations. You ...
Please understand something. God didn’t create evil in the world, but He did create free will, which allowed for the possibility of evil. Science isn’t like that. What you explore and find, God did create. It already exists. When you find it, you...
Not to grow up properly is to retain our 'caterpillar' quality from childhood (where it is a virtue) into adulthood (where it becomes a vice). In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls ful...
I transform fiction into memory.
There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie.
He rolled his eyes. "Fiction lies for the truth.
The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.
The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.
I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.
I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
Give me FICTION, REALITY is OVERRATED!
Goodreads.com is actually about fiction not dreading goo. But I have a profile there, anyway...
In the same way mannequins resemble people, fiction resembles life.
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.
