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Mathematics is the Queen of Science but she isn't very Pure; she keeps having babies by handsome young upstarts and various frog princes.

Donald Kingsbury

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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Donald Kingsbury

Donald Kingsbury

Born: February 12, 1929 (age 96)
Bio: Donald MacDonald Kingsbury is an American Canadian science fiction author. Kingsbury taught mathematics at McGill University, Montreal, from 1956 until his retirement in 1986.
Known for:
  1. Psychohistorical Crisis (2001)
  2. Courtship Rite (1982)
  3. The Moon Goddess and the Son (1979)
  4. Man-kzin Wars VI (1994)
  5. The Finger Pointing Solward (2008)

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