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Harlan Ellison
(27 May 1934 - )
American author whose career began in the mid 1950s in the science fiction genre. He has written or editted more than seventy books. His short stories number over twelve hundred.
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Science Quotes by Harlan Ellison (3 quotes)
People don’t die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that’s Progress, isn’t it?
Isn’t it?
Isn’t it?
— Harlan Ellison
Short Story, 'Jeffty is Five', (1977), collected in Donald A. Wollheim (ed.), The 1978 Annual World’s Best SF (1978), 164.
The real name for 'science' is magic.
— Harlan Ellison
Jeffty is Five (1977). Quoted in Gary Westfahl, Science Fiction Quotations (2005), 322.
The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and human stupidity.
— Harlan Ellison
Seen in various published collections of quotes. It may be in Harlan Ellison and Arnie Fenner (ed.) bugf#ck: The Worthless Wit & Wisdom of Harlan Ellison (2011), but as yet Webmaster has not seen a copy to verify the quote. [Please contact if you know the primary source.]
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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