"Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a hypothesis, not vice versa."

--

Source : Allen Steele (2011). “Hex”, p.138, Penguin

Allen Steele

#Mean Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Vices Quotes

“Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.”

Source : "Complete Works of Richard Sibbes".
“Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.”

Source : Joseph Conrad pt. 3, sec. 1 (1924)
“When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press
“To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.”
“You donâ€™t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You donâ€™t owe it to your mother, you donâ€™t owe it to your children, you donâ€™t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked â€˜femaleâ€™.”
“Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.”
“Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.”
“I think personal actions definitely matter. I think collectively they can make a big difference. But I also think that people don't live in a vacuum.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

You may also like:

Arthur C. Clarke
Film writer
Gardner Dozois
Fictioneer
Gregory Benford
Fictioneer
Ian McDonald
Novelist
Jack McDevitt
Author
James Patrick Kelly
Fictioneer
Michael Swanwick
Author
Nancy Kress
Fiction writer
Robert A. Heinlein
Science writer