Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or conve...

Randy Alcorn

Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the ficti...

Edward Rutherfurd

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.

Haruki Murakami

Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most interested in. I suppose that's one reason I don't have much respect for fiction that seems to be game playing.

Raymond Carver

Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks; fiction is flowing water.

Elif Shafak

Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.

Barry Eisler

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from begi...

Anthony Holden

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

Philip Roth

My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to s...

Rachel Nichols

In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phenomena science can only look for invariants.

Chance and Necessity

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Cosmos

Even if the aliens are short, dour, and sexually obsessed—if they’re here, I want to know about them.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

Tabii ki Tanrı, Laplace'nin (eşyanın nasıl işlediğine dair) matematiksel tarifinde yer almaz, tıpkı Bay Ford'un içten yanmalı motorun bilimsel tarifinde yer almadığı gibi.

God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.

How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality

Sex doesn't sell anything other than itself

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and the New Science of Desire

90 percent of all Gillette shavers are bought by women for the men in their lives

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and the New Science of Desire

The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.

The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever