Philip K. Dick

Person · Open Library

Born

16 December 1928

Died

2 March 1982

Works

639

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1928-12-16

Active to

1982-03-02

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

5,341

Total plays

139,183

Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American science fiction novelist and short story writer. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works, Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature of drug use <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Philip+K.+Dick">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.

   · 2003 · cited 67,662x

2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 24,157x

3. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,776x

4. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

   · 2016 · cited 14,615x

5. Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine

   · 2020 · cited 14,070x

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Quotes

• “Doctor Labyrinth, like most people who read a great deal and who have too much time on their hands, had become convinced that our civilization was going the way of Rome. He saw, I think, the same cracks forming that had sundered the ancient world, the world of Greece and Rome; and it was his conviction that presently our world, our society, would pass away as theirs did, and a period of darkness would follow.”
• “Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
• “In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law — in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy.”
• “I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it fundamentally endangers us, even with the H-bomb lurking about. Science has given us more lives than it has taken; we must remember that.”
• “Spinoza saw... that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, "I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second."”
• “My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it.”

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