“I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.”– Neil Gaiman Related Quotes “Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren’t thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.”– John Charles Polanyi “A woman needed half her leg amputated after she slipped and broke the leg as she was cleaning her bath while she was still asleep. Not even the pain of a broken bone woke her and the angle at which she fell cut off circulation to the leg, killing the limb. When she finally awoke, she was close to multi-organ collapse.”— Michael McGirr “When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.”– W. H. Auden