"The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories……" — Frederik Pohl
"The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten."
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30 Quotes by Frederik Pohl
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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 Astonishing Quotes
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one of 290 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
— Charles Baudelaire
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I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the…
— Daniel Boone
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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
— James Broughton
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It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes…
— Ernst Haeckel
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Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so…
— Carl Sagan
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It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
— William James
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Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and…
— Magdalena Abakanowicz
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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell…
— Dannion Brinkley
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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