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Robert J. Sawyer

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SUSAN LIM Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is ficti...
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WILLIAM GIBSON Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science...
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IAIN BANKS Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about sci...
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APOLO ANTON OHNO There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A...
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RAY BRADBURY It's really science fiction at its best.
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ALLAN AANONSON To be honest, Carl has been out of really cutting-edge research for two years or so.
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SLAVOJ ŽIžEK That's what science is about, ... This is about what's good science.
STEVE ABRAMS It [science fiction] really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact
MARIE LU I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
WILLIAM GIBSON LWS is kind of science with an edge.
BARBARA THOMPSON I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret At...
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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Philosophers created logic. Logic created science. Science is everything in everywhere. Logic is the...
EPHDAN My current project is science fiction, really ambitious I think. But again, it's a matter, to some e...
POUL ANDERSON The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeenth-century novels of exploration in fabulous ...
PHILIP K. DICK There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spir...
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BRIAN ANDERSON I love science fiction.
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WILLIAM SHATNER I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
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DAVID GERROLD Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.
URSULA K. LEGUIN I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.
ROBERT J. SAWYER It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'...
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JEFF RUCH Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
SAUL STEINBERG When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapol...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI You can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll c...
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LEE SMOLIN I really do like a really good science fiction movie and a really good horror movie. Those are the k...
PAUL GIAMATTI I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction write...
TAHMOH PENIKETT Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the...
PAMELA SARGENT Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.
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MUDITHA CHAMPIKA I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing ...
WALTER MOSLEY I don't read Science Fiction.
BRENT SPINER Science fiction has no ceiling.
WILLIAM DONELSON If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
EDWARD TUFTE The public doesn't really understand just how far this science has come.
ALAN RUSSELL The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This i...
JOHN SPENCER I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines o...
GIL GERARD I'm not a fan of science fiction, personally,
LAKE BELL The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
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NANCY FARMER We're on the cutting edge. This is really fantastic.
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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science, the very latest controversies, are worth rep...
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY Well basically, [evolution] is a scientific theory. It plays a very major role in biological researc...
LES LANE Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to u...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.
BRIAN W. ALDISS For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
C. J. CHERRYH There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature an...
JOHN SCALZI Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
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J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Trump does magic. Maybe it will be black magic sometime, but he's an amazing phenomenon.
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ROBERT J. RINGER Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have ...
ROBERT J. MCCRACKEN Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
ROBERT J. RINGER Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first th...
ROBERT J. MCKAIN The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes...
ROBERT J. MCKAIN What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the...
ROBERT J. RINGER Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or wit...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like t...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER If you're prepared, then you're able to feel confident.
ROBERT J. RINGER Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.
ROBERT J. MCKAIN Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and ...
ROBERT J. MCKAIN