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"But it would be anecdotal evidence only, undocumentable and, by definition, unrepeatable. Therefore, not science."
Nancy KressWhen you don’t know what you’re doing, Kaufman reflected, you can easi — Nancy Kress
"When you don’t know what you’re doing, Kaufman reflected, you can easily recycle from other efforts where you also didn’t know what you were doing."
Nancy Kress
Nancy Kress
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Nancy Anne Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella Beggars in Spain (1991), which became a novel in 1993. She also won the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 2013 for After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, and in 2015 for Yesterday's Kin. In addition to her nov
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"A conclusion is just the place where you got tired of thinking."
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"Judge not. No culture was better than another, no culture should be deemed in need of uplifting. Crap! It was the worst kind of moral laziness masquerading as cultural relativism."
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"The real thing—that’s not what you want in the theater. Illusion, magic, imagination. What should have happened, not what did. Reality doesn’t make good theater."
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"Serious thinkers pointed out that humankind was scarcely ready to colonize the stars, having solved none of its problems at home."
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"Cooperation was, in the long run, a more powerful evolutionary strategy than violence, once a species was high-tech."
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