Science Fiction Quotes

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

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

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

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.

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

I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be - Gothic princesses and white horses and bats and castles and things.

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

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

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

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.