Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our b...

'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'

So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to a cumulation of knowledge (of which the progress of the natural sciences provides the best exa...

Social Sciences as Sorcery

However, as I hope to persuade you, there are some interesting connections between science and magic. They share a belief, as one mathematician put it, that what is visible is merely a superficial reality, not the underlying "real reality." They both...

The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works

Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanic...

The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture

The Secoya are trapped between the devastating effects of the colonization frontier and their rich traditional past, which is proving to be as fragile a reality and as fleeting a memory as the most powerful visions of their esoteric science. But inst...

Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon

For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the ...

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that m...

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence—love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, becau...

Where is Science Going?

I'll bite: Hard science TA's and RA's often repair equipment; it's part of our science. If you want a silver spoon, don't go to grad school. Science is all about dangerous chemicals, semi-safe experimental equipment, and 4am drives down gravel roads ...

Life

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to......

William James

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth.

Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas

I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

...{N}othing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or embarrassing his family and friends.

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

It’s a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it’s happened on your watch.

36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own...

Varley O'Connor

You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.

Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

This is the fiction that I’m referring to as rhapsody, this stitching of mimetic representation, oneiric imagery, ludic rules, allegoric morals, satiric critique and diegetic story into complex quiltings of narrative.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Reading Lolita in Tehran