Concepts Quote by Michael Helm

It's OK to pursue speculative ideas because we don't want to be too cozy and safe and assume that we know everything about life…

— David Grinspoon

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by…

— Robert J. Sawyer

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations…

— Chinua Achebe

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

— Sheri S. Tepper

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

— Debra Fischer

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

— Hugo Gernsback

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

— Lisa Randall

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

— Neal Stephenson

Even though I knew pretty early that I was going to be a scientist, it wasn't the science that interested me in science fiction;…

— Steven Weinberg

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

— Margaret Atwood

Science fiction is something I never understood.

— John Waters

My love of science fiction comes from the idea of being able to explore ideas and concepts to an either logical or illogical extreme.

— David Hewlett