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• I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Ideas, World

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• Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

  Iain Banks

  Reality, Trying, Alternatives

  "Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.

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• The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Impact, Advice

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• In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Technology, Order

  "Playboy Interview: Ray Bradbury". Interview with Ken Kelley, www.raybradbury.com. May 1996.

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• The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way. Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way.

  George Lucas

  Strong, Stars, War

  Source: movieweb.com

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• My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

  Iain Banks

  Important, Fiction, Revolution

  Interview with Ken Livingstone, www.newstatesman.com. September 17, 2009.

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• Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Keys, Imagination

  Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.80, A&C Black

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• I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.

  Joss Whedon

  Who I Am, Fiction, Geek

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• Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

  Joss Whedon

  Historical, Fiction, Influence

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• Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society... Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Depression, Depressing, Mean

  "The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future" by Theodore J. Kaczynski, ("Control of Human Behavior", item 145), 1995.

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• Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and all of us—have to be able to think about a world that works differently.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Exercise, Thinking, Important

  FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Jun 26, 2013

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• I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

  Vonda N. McIntyre

  Reading, Fiction Novels, Firsts

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• I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

  Nigel Kneale

  Writing, Fiction, Saws

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• If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

  Sergey Brin

  People, Fiction, Enough

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• Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, School, Adults

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself.

  Joe Flanigan

  Blade Runner, Fans, Fiction

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• When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Book, Writing, Feet

  "Bestselling Author Explores Infinity Blade Lore". Interview with John Gaudiosi, www.ign.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Team, Reality, Self

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• The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

  William Shatner

  Space, Fiction, Stories

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• There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Fiction

  Quoted in Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde (1980)

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• In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction.

  Henry Rollins

  Theory Of Evolution, Fiction, Used

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• Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fiction, Today, Facts

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• The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?

  Sebastian Thrun

  Real, Knights, Self

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• Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Fiction, Mankind

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• You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Writing, Religion, Atheism

  Remark at a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association, November 07, 1948.

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