Quotes About Possibility

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.