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Quotes About Inspiration

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.
~ Freeman Dyson, Imagined Worlds
I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.
~ Deepak Chopra
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.
~ A.E. van Vogt
We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.
~ Nick Lampson
So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.
~ Michio Kaku
I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.
~ Joshua Lederberg
Science is not addressed to poets.
~ George Henry Lewes
My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.
~ Michael Scott
Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.
~ Thomas M. Disch
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
~ Laura Mennell
The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.
~ Chiwetel Ejiofor
The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
~ Stephen Hawking
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
~ Roger Ascham
At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.
~ Poul Anderson
Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.
~ Ernest Solvay
I was a very keen reader of science fiction.
~ Terry Pratchett
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.
~ Frederick Lenz
A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Genius is nourished from within and without.
~ Robert Aris Willmott
The discovery of one star is the promise of another.
~ Robert Aris Willmott
Toil of science swells the wealth of art.
~ Friedrich Schiller