Quotes About Speculation

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.

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

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.

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

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.

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

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

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

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

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

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

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.

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.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

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