Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

Science has an unfortunate habit of discovering information politicians don't want to hear, largely because it has some bearing on reality.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2012 December

We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because it sounds undignified. But when we were children, that's when we got interested in science, for a lot of us.

Michio Kaku

Fiction is dangerous because it lets you into other people's heads. It shows you that the world doesn't have to be like the one you live in." At the first nationally recognized science fiction convention in China in 2007, Gaiman took a party official...

Neil Gaiman

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

Berenice Marlohe

There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'

Dave Gibbons

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth," the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.

Kurt Vonnegut

I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

Olivia Wilde

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

John Scalzi

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

Ray Kurzweil

I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

Sarah Sutton

Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

Nicolas Cage

I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs to write.

Roky Erickson

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

J. J. Abrams

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

Dean Cavanagh

Those who are ignorant of science fiction movie tropes are condemned to play imperial stormtroopers.

John Alejandro King

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

Nicolas Cage

[about Homer going to college] Jim Hickam: Yeah, on a science fiction scholarship, maybe.

October Sky

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

Alfred Bester

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

Brian Aldiss

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

Douglas Lain

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

Fred Saberhagen