Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

William Irwin Thompson

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

Emile Durkheim

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

Amy Carter

In medical science, as in daily life, it was unwise to jump to conclusions

Albert Camus

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

Antonin Scalia

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

Joseph Crowley

Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.

Life

To say that science is logical is like saying that a painting is paint.

Art

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

The Corrections

Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.

Kristina McMorris

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

Paul Theroux

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

David Foster Wallace

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

Noah Baumbach

I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction.

Rick Bass

I love the newspaper. I love reading fiction.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Every fiction has its base in fact.

If I Stay

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

Jeannot et Colin

All prejudice presents itself as piety, propriety.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

Good fiction creates its own reality.

The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex

Fiction is the poor persons travel agent.

A Summer With Grandpa I'll Never Forget

I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.

Selected Non-Fictions