Science Quotes

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

Frederik Pohl

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

Frederik Pohl

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

Frederik Pohl

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

Frederik Pohl

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

Frederik Pohl

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

Frederik Pohl

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

Ferdinand de Saussure

But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they're in a dire situation or comedic situation.

Fisher Stevens

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.

Frederick Sanger

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

Fred Saberhagen

I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

Faran Tahir

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

Francis Parker Yockey

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

George Allen, Sr.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Gaston Bachelard

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

George E. Brown, Jr.

Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years.

George E. Brown, Jr.

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

George E. Brown, Jr.

Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?

Giordano Bruno

I've actually usually been wary of taking on science fiction as an actor because it's really tough to do. It's really difficult to execute. There's often lots of prosthetics, green screen and special effects, and it can get very technical.

Grant Bowler