"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction." — Frederik Pohl
"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction."
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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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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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If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write…
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More Dissection Quotes
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one of 23 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have…
— Benjamin Rush
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We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the…
— Nicolas Steno
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I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers…
— William Harvey
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I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science…
— Bipasha Basu
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Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a…
— Slavoj Žižek
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Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique.…
— Radhanath Swami
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Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face…
— Ma Jian
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Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap…
— Michael Dirda
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The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately,…
— Mary Roach
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I will never say, 'support the troops.' I don't believe in the validity of that statement. People say, 'I don't…
— Unknown Author
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The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
— Lord Byron
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