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“You mean old books?"

"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."

"How could there have been stories about space travel before --"

"The writers," Pris said, "made it up.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact that, deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the sceptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Al lector se le llenaron de pronto los ojos de lágrimas,
y una voz cariñosa le susurró al oído:
—¿Por qué lloras, si todo
en este libro es de mentira?
Y él respondió:
—Lo sé;
pero lo que yo siento es de verdad.”
― Ángel González, Nada grave

“La única diferencia que hay entre un capricho y una pasión eterna es que el capricho dura un poco más de tiempo.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray