Famous quotes containing the words science, fiction and/or author:
“What is done for science must also be done for art: accepting undesirable side effects for the sake of the main goal, and moreover diminishing their importance by making this main goal more magnificent. For one should reform forward, not backward: social illnesses, revolutions, are evolutions inhibited by a conserving stupidity.”
—Robert Musil (18801942)
“Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing ...”
—Ellen Glasgow (18731945)
“The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his ownthat is, for his ageso as to be able even then to take pleasure in himself.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)