"If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you."
8
"If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple."
5
"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor."
6
"You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student."
4
"If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes."
5
"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'."
3
"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."
6
"You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now."
5
"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly."
6
"If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want."
4
"I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting."
6
"Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science."
4
"Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards."
4
"I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do."
3
"Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it."
5
"Everything you see is filtered through your visual system (imperfect) and your brain (also imperfect, despite what your mom told you). Witness testimony is the worst kind of evidence in science."
4
"Touch a scientist and you touch a child."
5
"If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed."
4
"I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own."
6
"I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. There's no question that various victors throughout history have flat out lied about certain events or written themselves into things, and then you come along and you find out that this disproves that."
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