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A well built theory has three merits: (i) it has an aesthetic appeal, (ii) it is comparatively easy to understand, and (iii), if its postulates are clearly stated, it may be taken out of its original physical context and applied in another.

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Once the data is in, the theory has to follow along meekly.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Michael Swanwick

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Born: November 18, 1950 (age 74)
Bio: Michael Swanwick is an American science fiction author. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began publishing in the early 1980s.
Known for:
  1. The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
  2. Stations of the Tide (1990)
  3. Bones of the Earth (2002)
  4. The Dragons of Babel (2008)
  5. Dancing with Bears (2011)

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