"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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"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."
-David Brin
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"The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal."
-David Brin
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"But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science."
-David Brin
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"Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on."
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"There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives."
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain
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"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
-Alexandre Dumas
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle
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"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
-Carl Rogers
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"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
-Charlotte Bronte
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"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
-Derek Bok
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