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“I find humans tremendously interesting”

Quote by David Brin

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David Brin is an American scientist known for his contributions to physics and astronomy. His research spans various fields, including cosmology, astrophysics, and space exploration. Brin's work has had a significant impact in the academic community, and he is also a best-selling science fiction author, renowned for his insightful and imaginative novels. more

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“Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from”

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Author:David Brin

“Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases”

Hands Fall Fiction Cases Records Wall Science Fiction Islam Berlin Not Happy Fundamentalist Predicting Berlin Wall

Author:David Brin

“I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring”

Feels Writing Character Stories Feelings Literature Depth Backgrounds Plot Exploring Twists Implications Plot Twists

Author:David Brin

“One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events”

People Trying Events Involved Normal Heroic

Author:David Brin

“You can only kill disappointment with a new try.”

Trying Disappointment

Author:Kim Stanley Robinson

“One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.”

Oneself Chiefs Features Inability Incompetence

Book:Galileo's Dream

Source: Galileo's Dream

“You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.”

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Book:Galileo's Dream

Source: Galileo's Dream

“In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.”

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Author:Stephen Baxter

“Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan.”

Sometimes Seems Black Imagine Computer Standards Phones Riches Despite Corporations Sane Swear Tibetan

Author:Stephen Baxter

“The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.”

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Book:The Long War: (Long Earth 2)

Source: The Long War: (Long Earth 2)