Nelly Ben Hayoun quotes

The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science.
-- Nelly Ben Hayoun

#Assuming #Scientist #Surreal

Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.
-- Nelly Ben Hayoun

#Design #Fiction #Elements

I believe that, by taking an extreme approach, you really get the public to actively engage with a cause or a research ,and that is what motivates me with space exploration.
-- Nelly Ben Hayoun

#Believe #Space #Research

I got frustrated with films like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact," where the only answer to deal with a Near-Earth Object is basically Bruce Willis with a big drill.
-- Nelly Ben Hayoun

#Impact #Frustrated #Answers

I make films but I am trained as a designer. I come from this series of designers called critical designers, speculative designers.
-- Nelly Ben Hayoun

#Film #Designer #Critical

I am ready to serve the people of Afghanistan, particularly in order to restore peace. I will be ready to assume any duty at the service of my people.

When you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you.

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic.

It's so surreal being here.