Quotes about science and sci-fi
January 4, 2015 4:01 PM   Subscribe

Please help me find good quotes about how and why sci-fi is inspired by science, or how science is inspired by sci-fi.
posted by Unsomnambulist to Science & Nature (4 answers total)
 
Best answer: Ursula K. Le Guin: "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries—the realists of a larger reality."
posted by HeroZero at 4:59 PM on January 4, 2015


Best answer: Dr. Marc D. Rayman: "I worked on a mission called Deep Space One, which was the first interplanetary mission to use ion propulsion to travel around the solar system. And the first time I ever heard of ion propulsion was in the Star Trek episode 'Spock's Brain'. Aliens come to the Enterprise, and before they do their dastardly deed, Kirk walks over to Spock and says, 'How do you read, Mr. Spock?' 'Configuration unidentified. Ion propulsion. High velocity, though of a unique technology.' And Scotty says, 'I've never seen anything like her! And ion propulsion, at that! They could teach us a thing or two.' And so the opportunity to connect what I saw in Star Trek as a little kid to what I'm doing now as an adult is very, very exciting."
posted by kyrademon at 6:29 PM on January 4, 2015


Best answer: 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 birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.”
Ray Bradbury
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 1:12 AM on January 5, 2015


Best answer: Not sure if this applies for what you're looking for or not, but it's from Arthur C. Clarke and it's lovely: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
posted by Mchelly at 6:30 AM on January 5, 2015


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