Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
Octavia E. ButlerRead
Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
Interpretation
Science fiction allows creative exploration of various ideas and concepts without limitations.
This quote by Octavia E. Butler highlights the unique power of science fiction as a genre that liberates the imagination, enabling authors and readers alike to explore uncharted territories, innovative technologies, and diverse societal structures. It emphasizes the genre's ability to push boundaries and question established norms, allowing for the examination of possibilities that extend beyond current realities.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech on the importance of creativity in technology discussions.
Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
My characters hope for better lives.
I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.
A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.
I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.
It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.
Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.
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