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Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.
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My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size.
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It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.
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In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I’m into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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The world needs scientists, engineers - and if a brain is qualified to do such work, it should be encouraged, not smothered because it is a female brain.
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I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people.
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I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called? Crying? Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.
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An open mind is like an open window. It lets the fresh air in.
