Best Science Fiction Quotes
564 Science Fiction quotes by 352 unique authors
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In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you…
— Jonathan Carroll
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read…
— Kevin J. Anderson
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I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'
— Michael P. Anderson
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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly…
— Janet Morris
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It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.
— Martin Rees
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Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they…
— Isaac Asimov
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One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I don't think Judaism…
— Howard Stern
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One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's…
— Sigourney Weaver
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The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
— Frank Herbert
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Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost as if the…
— Susan Cheever
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Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
— Bernard M. Oliver
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I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can…
— Mark Goddard
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Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and…
— Kofi Annan
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We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my…
— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of the universe, any…
— Unknown Author
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Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.
— Damon Knight
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A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all without its scientific…
— Theodore Sturgeon
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Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can…
— Desmond Tutu
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Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.
— Stephen Hawking
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I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And…
— Gene Wolfe
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Starring in a science fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
— Harrison Ford
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I was always attracted to science fiction movies
— Tina Turner
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There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
— Allen Ginsberg
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352 authors contributed a total of 564 Science Fiction Quotes, led by these top contributors: