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“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.”
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“If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“Niente mi ha mai tediato così a fondo nella vita quanto avere vent’anni.”
― Nichi arriva con il buio
― Nichi arriva con il buio
“It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them.
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We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.”
― Shadow & Claw
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We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.”
― Shadow & Claw
The Evolution of Science Fiction
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