Astonishing Quote by Frederik Pohl Download Open image “The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.” — Frederik Pohl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astonishing He Head Reading Stories Ten
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“There are people who never pass a certain point in their emotional development. They cannot live a normal free-and-easy, give-and-take life with a sexual… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“If a picture on the wall can remember, you remember that this is not the first time. If a picture on the wall can… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Wealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“You asked me, 'Do you call this living?" And I answer: Yes, it is exactly what I call living. And in my best hypothetical… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
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It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
