Science Fiction Quotes

Science Fiction Quote of the day

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

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

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

How many roads must a man walk down?

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

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

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.

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.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

Madness, and then illumination.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.

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.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

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

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

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

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

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

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.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.

Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

We all know interspecies romance is weird.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

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

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.