Experiments Quote by Rudy Rucker Download Open image “One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.” — Rudy Rucker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Experiments Fiction Nice Nice things Rude Science Science fiction
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake, and if anything I've always… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future. — Bernard Werber Copy Share Image
For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know. — Joel Gretsch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
“Everything is cellular. Reality is cellular. I really love that word, cellular. Cellular phone, cellular foam, sleeper cell, cellulite, cellular automata . . .… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely,… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image