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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.
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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
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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
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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
firsts glory
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself. Charles Spurgeon
firsts first-time virgins
You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time. Diane Lane
firsts steps first-steps
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
firsts steps first-steps
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
firsts records genre
I never excluded any genre on my first record. Deana Carter
firsts strangest-secret
We've got to be of service first before we can expect money. Earl Nightingale
firsts newspapers
[On newspapers:] A first draft of history. Elizabeth Drew
firsts fine
The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better. Elfriede Jelinek
firsts how-to-love know-how
Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place. Deepak Chopra
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The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth. Richard P. Feynman
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things. J. August Richards
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I majored in physics at IU. But I took a whole lot of astronomy classes. I thought it would be great to have a solar telescope ... be able to see things during the day with the students. John Taylor
astronomy geographic love national watch
I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. I'm into astronomy and love to learn about new facts. Sonu Nigam
astronomy rate thirds
I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered. Edwin Powell Hubble
astronomy command professors understand
To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover. Galileo Galilei
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When he came to me wanting to do something in astronomy, I got excited. Astronomy is my first love in science. But he wanted to buy a big telescope which we couldn't afford. Norm Negus
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My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.' Joseph Murray
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It has become quite obvious in recent years that our nomenclature in astronomy is not keeping pace with our discoveries.