"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
-Susan Sontag
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"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.“
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"For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied."
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"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
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"Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future."
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"Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility."
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"I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams."
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"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
-Will Durant
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"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness."
-Charles Darwin
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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
-Jacob Bronowski
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"Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science."
-Robert Green Ingersoll
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