Science Fiction Quotes - Page 24

• Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.

  Alex Jones

  Race, Dna, People

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we'll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Zoos, Animal

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

  Hugo Gernsback

  Fiction, Natural, Imaginative

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• In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

  James Gunn

  Events, Fiction, Development

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• [T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

  James Gunn

  Men, Fiction, World

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• Science fiction fans are awesome, they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Coffee, Love You, Fans

  "Starbuck Speaks". Eric Gillin, www.esquire.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.

  Tahmoh Penikett

  Kids, Fiction, My Favorite

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• Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Team, Years, Fiction

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• Im a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.

  Robert Kazinsky

  Fiction, Geek, Fantasy

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• I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fiction, Fiction Writers

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• I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone else, the extra degree of freedom that I found when I first found science fiction.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, Degrees, Fiction

  Interview with Eric Holstein and Raoul Abdaloff, www.actusf.com. March 2008.

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• I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.

  Ruth Glick

  Teenager, Character, Fiction

  "'Dark Powers' Author Rebecca York". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 21, 2012.

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• My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.

  Jon Scieszka

  Book, Reading, Fiction

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• Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fiction, Fantasy, Happens

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work!

  Tananarive Due

  Looks, Fiction, Stories

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• As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977 the bow-wave of publicity for the first Star Wars movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional.

  Philip Reeve

  Stars, Children, War

  "Philip Reeve: 'I can't even drive a car, let alone an inter-dimensional phone box'". Interview with Patrick, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2013.

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• I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.

  Matt Reeves

  Would Be, Fiction, Horror

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Creating, People, Tools

  "Google's Ray Kurzweil on the quest to live forever". Interview with Kate Lunau, www.macleans.ca. October 14, 2013.

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• Theres two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once youve read, you never look at the world the same way again.

  David Gerrold

  Stars, Book, Adventure

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• One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

  Hugh Howey

  Fans, Wool, Fiction

  "Hugh Howey Interview Part 1: Science Fiction, Indie Writing, And Success". Interview with Eric Wecks, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

  Jamais Cascio

  Fiction Stories, Might, Good Science

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• My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

  Cynthia Breazeal

  Stars, War, Memorable

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• Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.

  John Clute

  Writing, Views, Innovation

  "In defense of science fiction" by John Clute, www.cnn.com. May 26, 1999.

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• I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

  Vin Diesel

  Would Be, Fiction, Film

  "Vin Diesel Talks RIDDICK, Balancing His Producer and Actor Roles, Making Good on Promises, HANNIBAL THE CONQUEROR, Future of Cinema, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.

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• I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that seem to me to be more a fantastic science fiction than they are action movies.

  Walter Hill

  Hero, Thinking, Leaving

  Source: collider.com

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