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When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.

One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.

The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar; A moment terrible to hear.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

That confirmation will be in the form of a functional simulation of human intelligence that passes the Turing test, which I believe will take place by 2029.119

Artificial "neural nets" are based on Hebb's model of neuronal learning.

Instead of teaching doctrines and developing theories, Wittgenstein came to think, a philosopher should demonstrate a technique, a method of achieving clarity.

writing for a couple of months after a woman accused her of committing the grammatical sin

The need of our times is nothing less than the re-Christianization of our churches, according to the gospel alone, in both doctrine and culture, by Christ himself

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.

This idea is fraught with peril, and I fear that my answers to your questions will be interpreted as approval rather than reluctant assistance.

Yelling "God is on our side" is "very effective at rallying the masses. And at winning elections....

Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.

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Aping Mankind is a one-stop shop for anyone who wishes to question the wild and often ludicrous claims that are made on behalf of biologism.

The assumption that 'if science can't see it, then it is isn't real' has nothing to do with science and everything to do with 'scientism'—belief in the 'omnicompetence of science';[30] more precisely, in the omnicompetence of a sub-set of sciences—the natural, rather than the social, sciences

How nice is it is to be sage the Gemini whacked!

Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

Crime was like litter tossed on the highway: once it was shoved out the window the only ones who cared were the ones close to where it landed.

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.