Dry Quote by Ian Hickson

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

— Jack Williamson

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

— Rudy Rucker

Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS.

— David Hestenes

A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is…

— Philip K. Dick

Science fiction is something I never understood.

— John Waters

The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.

— Ellen Gallagher

[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

— Lester del Rey

Science fiction is not formulaic.

— Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

— Philip K. Dick

[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as…

— Edmund Crispin

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

— Steven Spielberg