I think the least important thing about science fiction…

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really…

— William Gibson

Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive… Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrödinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future - indeed Schrödinger…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

— Steven Spielberg

“I‘ve always agreed with the view that — with science fiction — its predictive powers were the least important or least relevant aspect of…

— Jonathan Lethem

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

— James Anthony Froude

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

— Freeman Dyson

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

— Jonathan Miller

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

— Anonymous

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The wonderful thing about science is that it can even explain things that nobody needs to know.

— Anonymous

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

— Sean M. Carroll

Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science…

— Koji Nakanishi

That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

— Freeman Dyson