Quotes About Inspiration

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

Nature engenders the science of painting

Art isn't a science or a job; it's alive.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

It's not rocket science to make a movie.

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.

Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.