Guilford thought he knew what science was. It was nothing more than curiosity...tempered by humility, disciplined with patience. Science meant lookin… - Robert Charles Wilson

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Guilford thought he knew what science was. It was nothing more than curiosity...tempered by humility, disciplined with patience.
Science meant looking—a special kind of looking. Looking especially hard at the things you didn’t understand. Looking at the stars, say, and not fearing them, not worshiping them, just asking questions, finding the question that would unlock the door to the next question and the question beyond that.

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Robert Charles Wilson (born December 15, 1953) is a Canadian science fiction author.

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