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Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

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The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

Galileo's Dream (2009)

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can’t grasp the current situation.

Red Mars (1992)

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

Green Mars (1993)

When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.

Galileo's Dream (2009)

We live in a universe ruled by very few laws, but the redoubling of violence by violence is one of the main ones.

The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis (1901)

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