"I don't think the scientific method and the……" — Frederik Pohl
"I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them."
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Frederik Pohl
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30 Quotes by Frederik Pohl
Frederik Pohl has 30 quotes on this site.
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That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in:…
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What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?
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You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.
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You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.
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I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning,…
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change…
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The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do…
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The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means…
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I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
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You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating,…
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In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that…
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More Analogous Quotes
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Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a…
— Unknown Author
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Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of…
— Sigmund Freud
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It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the…
— Werner Heisenberg
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The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me…
— Charles Darwin
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Walking also enables us to watch a hole unfold in front of us. To walk a course is analogous to…
— Lorne Rubenstein
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The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it…
— Theodor Schwann
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The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms,…
— Theodor Schwann
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The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
— Nicholas Meyer
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Attributing global climate change to human COâ‚‚ production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the…
— Timothy Ball
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Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of…
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