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Philip José Farmer
(26 Jan 1918 - )
American author whose prolific writing career in science fiction stretches over fifty years from the late 1950s, while at the time, he was a technical writer. He is also known as Philipé Jos Farmer.
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Science Quotes by Philip José Farmer (2 quotes)
Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.
By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant, vibrates through the strands and affects every man.
By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant, vibrates through the strands and affects every man.
— Philip José Farmer
Riders of the Purple Wage (1967). In Gary Westfahl, Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits (2006), 1.
Nature is an experimenter.
— Philip José Farmer
Prometheus (1961). In Down in the Black Gang: And Others; a Story Collection (1971), 141.
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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