Extremes Quote by David Eddings

“But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. If the general…

— David Eddings

I am not optimistic, but I've never been optimistic about humankind or America. The evidence never looks good in terms of forces for good…

— Cornel West

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human…

— Kevin Kelly

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

— China Mieville

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can…

— John Maynard Keynes

Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending…

— James Gunn

Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we…

— Samuel R. Delany

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin…

— Miguel de Unamuno

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by…

— Robert J. Sawyer

I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.

— Patrick Stewart

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

— Stephen Hawking

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science…

— Elizabeth Moon