Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“With the warmth of an alien sun on his back, Jacob took a deep breath at the door and knocked.” — Sharon Sant Copy Share Image
Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around. — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
“Doubt is what keeps the heart and mind of every man alive. It 's what makes us think twice.” — Vasileios Kalampakas Copy Share Image
“I believe knowledge ought to be gained without a dollar amount added to it.” — Lauren Lola Copy Share Image
“In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked… — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as magic. Just that which you do not understand.” — Ron Alias Copy Share Image
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“That's the Zone for you: come back with swag, a miracle; come back alive, success; come back with a patrol bullet in… — Arkady Strugatsky Copy Share Image
“The male author unthinkingly creates a world in which every single member of society is male except—hey presto!—when the protagonist feels like… — Howard Mittelmark Copy Share Image
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
New technologies are rapidly giving rise to unprecedented methods of warfare. Innovations that yesterday were science fiction could cause catastrophe tomorrow, including… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, 'Sci-fi is dead.… — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around… — Palmer Luckey Copy Share Image
“She hoped he could move on one day and find happiness. He had the luxury to try. She hoped he would succeed.… — Kiersten Fay Copy Share Image
“All of the things that were shown in early studies to be good for longevity—happy marriages, healthy bodies—are ours to have. We… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later it must come out, even if other men rediscover it. And then...Governments and powers will struggle to get hither,… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Imagine you are Siri Keeton: You wake in an agony of resurrection, gasping after a record-shattering bout of sleep apnea spanning one… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“When I see your scars, do I want to erase them? Absolutely. But not your physical scars. The real ones, beneath the… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Yes, 1960’s North American sitcoms have led me to study the United States 1920’s and 1930’s crime bosses— QET Jenkins” — Kim Welsman Copy Share Image
Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program. — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Keep those eyes of yours, mate, wide-fucking-open. Never know when it’s watching.” — Adam Scott Huerta Copy Share Image
“Souls, Ms. Ellis, are for people who blame devils for their illness and praise angels for the cure. I do neither.” — Thomas Trask Copy Share Image
Science fiction has been an inspiration to generations of scientists and engineers, and the film series 'Star Wars' is no exception. — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is the ability to harness the powers of the surrounding world without destroying the said world” — Arkady Strugatsky Copy Share Image
Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?" — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“We are monsters with good intentions, our instincts drive us but our passions devour us” — E.C. Lemus Copy Share Image
I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“ 'You're like starlight,' Cam whispered, and his teeth scraped up my jaw. I shivered. 'I could lose myself in you.' ” — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
