Science Fiction Quotes

• For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Thinking, People, Important

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• The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Fiction, Happened

  Writer's Symposium By The Sea, Point Loma Nazarene University, cosmolearning.org. April, 2001.

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• Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Trying, Fiction

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• Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Writing, Ideas

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.284, Melville House

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• One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Pain, Future, Science

  "The Making of Kubrick's 2001". Book by Jerome Agel, 1970.

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• Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational definition: science fiction is something that COULD happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that COULDN'T happen - though often you only wish that it could.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Blood, Wish, Fiction

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: History Lesson”, p.6, RosettaBooks

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• Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

  Bill Nye

  Space, Fans, Fiction

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• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Technology, Fiction

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.169, Grove Press

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• Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fun, Talking, Civilization

  Brown Daily Herald, March 24, 1995.

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• Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Real, Princess

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.323, Penguin

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• No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Fiction, Matter, Representing

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• Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

  Stephen Hawking

  Travel, Space, Rockets

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• Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Reality, Past

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen

  Rita Rudner

  Hilarious, Cooking, Kitchen

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• The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

  Frank Herbert

  Real, Steps, Logic

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.323, Penguin

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• Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Creative, Fiction

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• Science fiction is the very literature of change.

  Frederik Pohl

  Fiction, Literature

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• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Essence, Fiction Stories

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

  Frederik Pohl

  Real, Fiction, Literature

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• I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

  China Mieville

  Thinking, Interesting, Vision

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• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Technology, Possible And Impossible

  Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.

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• Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Science, Fiction

  1975 'How Easy To See The Future', in Natural History, Apr.

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• Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

  Isaac Asimov

  Faces, Fiction, Literature

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• Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Political, Fiction

  "The Making of Kubrick's 2001". Book by Jerome Agel, 1970.

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• Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

  Philip K. Dick

  Sorry, Writing, Fiction

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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