Sci-fi authors have the amazing ability to transport us to other worlds, alternate realities and disturbing versions of our planet in the future. Therefore, it's no surprise that these writers have some of the greatest sound bites this field of literature has to offer. Here are some of the greatest quotes that science fiction has to offer.
Isaac Asimov
- "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence, the concept around which it revolves, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all." ("My Own View," The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction)
- "But suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details? (The Dangerous Myth of Creationism, Penthouse Jan 1982)
- "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."
- "Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
- "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science fiction gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
- Barbara Walters: "But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?"
Asimov: "Type faster"
- "Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it." (Pebble in the Sky)
- "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." (Foundation)
- "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." (Foundation)
Ray Bradbury
- "We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."
- "Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."
- "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading."
- "We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?" (Fahrenheit 451)
- "Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting pieces together." (Zen in the Art of Writing)
- "So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily."
- "Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle." (The Martian Chronicles)
Arthur C. Clarke
- "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
- "How inappropriate to call this planet 'Earth', when it is clearly 'Ocean'."
- "I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."
- "..science fiction is something that could happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn't happen - though often you only wish that it could."
- "Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software."
Philip K. Dick
- "If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others."
- "It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the possibility that something terribly funny will happen."
- "No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up." (The Transmigration of Timothy Archer)
- "It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane." (VALIS)
- "I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile." (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
- "Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit."
- "I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it fundamentally endangers us, even with the H-bomb lurking about. Science has given us more lives than it has taken; we must remember that. (The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings)
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