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Science Quotes by Ray Bradbury

45 Science quotes by Ray Bradbury

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A child reading sci‑fi sparks Ray Bradbury’s love for many topics. He notes that science fiction fuels curiosity about music, architecture, city planning, politics, and ethics. He also says a sci‑fi story tries to solve a real‑world problem, whether moral, physical, or social.

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Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

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I don't do research. I never have.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give…

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

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

“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you…

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny…

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon…

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves…

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority