Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death. - Terry Pratchett

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Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.

Terry Pratchett

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Age, Creche, Death, Fantasy, Follows

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There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

Becomes, Change, Past, Present, Turns, Wells

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Dangerous, Funny, Ignorance, Learning, Say

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Caves, Humor, Inspirational, Paint, Possible, Sign

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Beginning, Exploded, Humorous, Lords And Ladies, Nothing, Science

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

Believe, Errors, Evolving, Natural, Organic, Science

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Aleksandar Hemon

When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein, and the Big Bang. I read a lot about black holes. And partly because I'm so lazy I thought you could do all this just by looking at the sky and thinking up universes. It didn't seem like hard work when I was a kid, so I enrolled in this class.

Kids, Hard Work, School, High, Looking, Big

Conrad Black

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

Cutting, Effecting, Effectively, Party, War

Ted Danson

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.

Arrogant, Believe, Created, Dominate, Evolution

Wallace Stevens

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

Grows, Literature, Terrible

Martin Rees