Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Elizabeth Bowen

It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of...

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

I read and reread and recommended and rarely rejected, became one of those readers who will read trashy stories as long as they're not too terrible--well, even perhaps the truly terrible ones--and will reread something she's already read, even if it'...

Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood. The moment it tries to be anything else it becomes cheap, puerile, and unconvincing. Pr...

Notes On Writing Weird Fiction

And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts,...

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

The writer's characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that nothing they do strikes us as improbable behavior for just that character, even when the character's action is, as sometimes happens, something that c...

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencie...

Mario Vargas Llosa

Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any f...

Frederick Buechner

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

Anton Chekhov

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

Michael Welch

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

Simon McBurney

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Thomas Berger

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.

Antidisestablishmentarianism

I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

The Lovely Bones

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

The Story of Philosophy

What happens to the world when science stops evolving?

Serendipidus

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Physical Basis of Mind

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

Pantagruel

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

The Wealth of Nations

Wit had conquered science by laughing it out of court.

Philip Schuyler Allen