The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction…

— Frederik Pohl

Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature…

— Anonymous

Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

— Matthew Pearl

We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle,…

— Nicolas Steno

A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening to music…

— David Byrne

there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of scientific explanation.…

— Jane Goodall

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let the historic dissection begin. Man-made global warming is a dying market and a zombie science.

— Joanne Nova

Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content…

— Michael Dirda

“What have you to do with hearts, except for dissection?”

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric…

— William Harvey

“The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?" I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape…

— Theresa Breslin

I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like I was…

— Kelly Link

It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.

— Amanda Shires

“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,…

— Mira Grant