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“I don’t think I like American inventions [...] I am quite sure I don’t. I read some American novels lately, and they were quite…

— Oscar Wilde

“That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it.”

— Robert E. Howard

“But of course it was an American paper. The Americans always go one better on any kinds of beastliness, whether it is ice-cream soda,…

— George Orwell

“I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction”

— Marcus Chown

“The Americans are an extremely interesting people. They are absolutely reasonable. I think that is their distinguishing characteristic...I assure you there is no nonsense…

— Oscar Wilde

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so…

— Isaac Asimov

By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and…

— Hugo Gernsback

“Say we are from nowhere or anywhere or somewhere, we are make-believe people, frauds, reinventions, shapeshifters, which is to say, Americans.”

— Salman Rushdie

“They made up all those myths in the time before there was anything called science.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“Science is a way of looking at the world without the rose-coloured glasses of ignorance!”

— Dr Steven Bottomley

“And as you are about to see, it not only produces the best science, but also some of the very best science writing.”

— Bill Bryson

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and…

— Lyndon B. Johnson