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Douglas Preston Quote: 'Hubris and science are incompatible. ...'

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In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.
Cynthia Breazeal
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.


Larry Wall
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We're all victims of our own hubris at times.


Kevin Spacey
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Ah, the intractable Canadian problem: Winter and finery are basically incompatible.


Russell Smith
Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.
Moby
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Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Thomas Huxley
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Tags: Freedom Our Must
We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.
Daniel Kahneman
Tags: Time Future Very
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
Anthony Trollope
Tags: Man Now Become
My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.
Peter Scolari
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The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.
James Woods
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Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.
Sam Harris
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I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.
Harry Oppenheimer
The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league.
Leon Bourgeois
There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values.
Sean Parker
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I'm a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.


Robert Kazinsky
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I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.


Steven Spielberg
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It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.


Frederik Pohl
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Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.


Greg Bear
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I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.


China Mieville