Failing Quote by Rudy Rucker

Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because…

— Isaac Asimov

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

— Noam Chomsky

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

— Isaac Asimov

“With some justice, I think, I could claim that it is all right as a beginning to leave a principle in a somewhat fuzzy…

— Robert Nozick

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because we haven't been able to understand it yet.

— Richard Matheson

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible.…

— Ray Bradbury

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes. I think…

— Kyle Hill

Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before…

— Andy Andrews

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

— George Polya

It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature…

— Galileo Galilei

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

— Dick Cheney