Science Quotes by Ray Bradbury

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

— Ray Bradbury

I don't do research. I never have.

— Ray Bradbury

“Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.”

— Ray Bradbury

“That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.”

— Ray Bradbury

“The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything.”

— Ray Bradbury

“at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of…

— Ray Bradbury

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

— Ray Bradbury

“Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.”

— Ray Bradbury

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

— Ray Bradbury

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

— Ray Bradbury

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

— Ray Bradbury

The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human…

— Ray Bradbury

The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems…

— Ray Bradbury

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There…

— Ray Bradbury

“What is fire? It’s a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don’t really know. Its real beauty…

— Ray Bradbury

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then…

— Ray Bradbury

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in.…

— Ray Bradbury

To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys…

— Ray Bradbury

“The children guessed, if they did not whisper it, that all science fiction is an attempt to solve problems by pretending to…

— Ray Bradbury

“Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and…

— Ray Bradbury

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of…

— Ray Bradbury

I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed…

— Ray Bradbury

“I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the…

— Ray Bradbury

Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent…

— Ray Bradbury

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning,…

— Ray Bradbury

What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted…

— Ray Bradbury

“...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of…

— Ray Bradbury

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the…

— Ray Bradbury

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

— Ray Bradbury

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

— Ray Bradbury

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

— Ray Bradbury

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

— Ray Bradbury

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes…

— Ray Bradbury

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is…

— Ray Bradbury

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

— Ray Bradbury

In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as…

— Ray Bradbury

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of…

— Ray Bradbury

In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack,…

— Ray Bradbury

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and…

— Ray Bradbury

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

— Ray Bradbury