Capacity Quote by William Gibson

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

— William Gibson

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

— China Mieville

We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the…

— J. Michael Straczynski

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization…

— Ray Bradbury

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

Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and…

— Ray Bradbury

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star…

— Robert Sheckley

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

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and…

— Ray Bradbury

“Science fiction inspires scientists, but it doesn't exist to dictate what our future should look like. Great science fiction is fun to read and…

— Daniel H. Wilson

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

— Frank Herbert