Frederik Pohl quotes - page 3

There is a Carot's law to pain. It is measured not by absolutes, but the difference between source and ambience, and my ambience had been too safe and too pleasurable for too long to equip me for this. (Frederik Pohl)
You could rule the nation-and yet you don't seem to go after that power. View quote
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The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten. View quote
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A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. View quote
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Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck. View quote
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A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas. View quote
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It was a wonder that so strange thing as a number should exist in the first place, rivalled only by the greater wonder that they should perform so obediently the work of mankind. View quote
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