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> [Science fiction is the very literature of change.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/science-fiction-is-the-very-literature-of-change/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

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## More by Frederik Pohl

> [“There are people who never pass a certain point in their emotional development. They cannot live a normal free-and-easy, give-and-take life with a sexual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/there-are-people-who-never-pass-a-certain-point-in-their-emotional/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

> [“Only you have to keep practicing and remembering.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/only-you-have-to-keep-practicing-and-remembering/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

> [“Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/anyway-that-s-what-life-is-just-one-learning-experience-after-another/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

> [A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/a-lot-of-the-cosmologists-and-astrophysicists-clearly-had-been/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

> [Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/advertising-reaches-out-to-touch-the-fantasy-part-of-people-s-lives/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

> [A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/a-large-fraction-of-the-most-interesting-scientists-have-read-a-lot/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

> [“If a picture on the wall can remember, you remember that this is not the first time. If a picture on the wall can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/if-a-picture-on-the-wall-can-remember-you-remember-that-this-is-not/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

> [It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/it-s-clear-that-science-and-science-fiction-have-overlapping/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

> [“Wealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/wealth-or-death-those-were-the-choices-gateway-offered-humans-had/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

> [When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/when-i-sit-down-to-the-feast-of-life-i-m-so-busy-planning-on-how-to/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

> [For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/for-someone-to-be-taken-seriously-it-was-valuable-to-have-the/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

> [“You asked me, 'Do you call this living?" And I answer: Yes, it is exactly what I call living. And in my best hypothetical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/you-asked-me-do-you-call-this-living-and-i-answer-yes-it-is-exactly/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

> [The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/the-science-fiction-method-is-dissection-and-reconstruction/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

> [On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/on-this-day-i-want-to-tell-you-about-which-will-be-about-a-thousand/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

> [“There are times when I sit at the center of the world, and when I know that I can reach out to any of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/there-are-times-when-i-sit-at-the-center-of-the-world-and-when-i-know/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

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