Scientist Quotes

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.
I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.
Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.
Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.
Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.
Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
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