Apparitions Quote by Andrzej Stasiuk

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

— Steve Erickson

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man…

— Thomas Jefferson

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake, and if anything I've always…

— Steve Erickson

“Odd thing it is—the word ‘experiment’ is unpopular, but not the word ‘experimental.”

— C.S. Lewis

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

— John Cheever

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

— John Updike

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are…

— Isaac Newton

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

— Isaac Asimov

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

— Edmund Burke

It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere…

— Herbert Butterfield

I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

— Arthur Eddington

The biggest experiment there - and I was convinced for a really long time that it was going to fail horribly - had to…

— Roy Kesey