"Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times."

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Greg Egan

#Flying Quotes #Kind Quotes #Drag Quotes

“It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.”
“The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct.”
“Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.”

Source : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.41, Macmillan
“It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.”
“And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.”
“It's going back to old school, the way it was done and I'm finding out there is something different, a little interesting. There is something just a little fresh about it because I haven't seen it done like that in a little while. I'm embracing it, you know.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“You're going to bat so many times during a season and it's not worth getting mad about. I still get frustrated, but I try not to let the other team know that.”
“Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.”

Source : "Fictional character: Billie Dawn". "Born Yesterday", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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