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fiction people science scientists tells time virtually visible
My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do. Gregory Benford
fictional remains
More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective. Mark Billingham
fiction easy tales
How easy it is to tell tales! Denis Diderot
fiction hub
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. Elizabeth Bowen
fiction stories knows
[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
fiction autobiography bounds
... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
fiction hard tendency weakness
I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time. Sarah Dessen
fiction humor low pitch relief short throws trying
Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it. Elizabeth McCracken
fiction fondness hard historical mind science wondrous
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves. Sue Monk Kidd
definitions pay
Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it. Aaron Allston
definitions would-be world
The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics. Bruno Latour
definitions able sound
But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that. Dennis Brown
definitions protest restraint
In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint. Chinua Achebe
definitions pragmatism bottom
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses. Charles Sanders Peirce
definitions standards computing
The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand. Bill Joy
definitions pops these-days
I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days. Ed Droste
definitions how-to-love would-be
Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition. bell hooks
definitions firsts figures
By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around. Barry Sonnenfeld
hubris
Hubris and science are incompatible. Douglas Preston
hubris mix naivete record wondering worst
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means. Ian Williams
hubris ability thirteen
I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control. David Foster Wallace
hubris potency dangerous
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species Garrett Hardin
hubris victim
We're all victims of our own hubris at times. Kevin Spacey