"Science fiction is the search for a definition……" — Brian Aldiss
"Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode."
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24 Quotes by Brian Aldiss
Brian Aldiss has 24 quotes on this site.
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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.
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Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)
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Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
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A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers…
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Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able…
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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
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The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution,…
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Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and…
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It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats…
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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That…
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Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
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The day of the android has dawned.
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More Advanced Quotes
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
— Aristophanes
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Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact…
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced…
— John Adams
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement…
— Niels Bohr
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
— Jeff Bridges
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I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming…
— David Byrne
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
— Stephen Ambrose
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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and…
— Hermann Kolbe
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions -…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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