"I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists."

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Source : "Why Alastair Reynolds Doesn’t Do Star Trek Physics". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams, David Barr Kirtley, www.wired.com. September 5, 2012.

Alastair Reynolds

#Struggle Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Scientist Quotes

“Thinking of this University [Ambedkar University] today, we are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi because if there was anyone who fought for the weak in India, the first one to raise his voice for Scheduled Castes, that was Gandhiji. There were social workers before him but not any people who raised this matter in the political arena as he did.”

Source : Rajiv Gandhi (1991). “Selected Speeches and Writings: January 1989 to November 1989”
“Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a changeless harmony - behind the everchanging.”
“The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.”
“War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but â€žtil then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.”

Source : Alfred Thayer Mahan (2012). “Mahan on Naval Warfare”, p.128, Courier Corporation
“Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Hereâ€™s another one. This one by Phillip Lopate: â€˜(Children know it better than adults) that in telling a lie, fidelity is everything.â€™”
“America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not come from government, it comes from the creator of life.”
“The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.”

Source : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
“Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

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