Colorful Quote by Alfred Bester

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

— Michael Dirda

Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I'm interested in the fact that within science, you're dealing with properties of the real and physical world, and by using those properties you're…

— Marc Quinn

We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it

— Michael Ruse

“Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.”

— Karl Popper

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

— Karl Popper

Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

— Robert J. Sawyer

“we shouldn’t reshape our science just to avoid confusing the public”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science.

— Lisa Randall

Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times…

— Barry Barish

“where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people resolve conflicting…

— Dean Ornish