Science Fiction Research

Famous quotes containing the words science fiction, science, fiction and/or research:

    “If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.”
    —Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)

    ““What we know, is a point to what we do not know.” Open any recent journal of science, and weigh the problems suggested concerning Light, Heat, Electricity, Magnetism, Physiology, Geology, and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “... any fiction ... is bound to be transposed autobiography.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.”
    —Peter B. Medawar (1915–1987)