Source: The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics (1959), p. 88
“I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
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As quoted by W. K. Hancock in SMUTS 2: The Fields of Force 1919-1950, p. 395

Source: Letter to Lord Northbrook (25 August 1875), quoted in S. Gopal, British Policy in India, 1858-1905 (Cambridge University Press, 1965), p. 65

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“I am often asked is [my work] science fiction or fantasy and my answer is usually ‘Yes’.”
In a panel about his work in Comic Con 2010. Quoted in China Miéville Takes Comic Con http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/08/china-mieville-takes-comic-con.

As quoted in "Annals of Science II-DNA" by Horace Freeland Judson in The New Yorker (4 December 1978), p. 132