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Science Quotes by Octavia Butler
- And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind…
- I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
- Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
- The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
- What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's…
- Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have…
- I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem…
- No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that…
- Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
- Science fiction is not formulaic.
- Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
- So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction…
More Science Quotes
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov