"There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see."
-Naguib Mahfouz
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"I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."
-Naguib Mahfouz
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"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
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"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."
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"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
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"If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion."
-Naguib Mahfouz
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"Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff."
-Joel Edgerton
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"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."
-Diane Cilento
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"Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts."
-Brian Aldiss
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"We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space."
-Nick Lampson
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"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development."
-John Desmond Bernal
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"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."
-John Desmond Bernal
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