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Science Fiction Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke
- Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
- 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…
- Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
- 'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous,…
- In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication to Isaac Asimov…
- There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism,…
More Science Fiction Quotes
- 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
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood
- Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. — Dan Aykroyd
- I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them. — Rick Baker
- Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard
- Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. — Douglas Adams
- My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks
- I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction. — Mayim Bialik