A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature -… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“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… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“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… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“If a picture on the wall can remember, you remember that this is not the first time. If a picture on the wall can… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Wealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“You asked me, 'Do you call this living?" And I answer: Yes, it is exactly what I call living. And in my best hypothetical… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
