Science Fiction

(246 votes)   The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

Erich Fromm
1900-1980, American Psychologist

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(223 votes)   Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can never

Woody Allen
1935-, American Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian

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(201 votes)   The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(190 votes)   O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?

Thomas Campbell
1777-1844, Scottish Poet

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(189 votes)   Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(185 votes)   Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

Mike Adams

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(166 votes)   When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the Agamemnon.

James Joyce
1882-1941, Irish Author

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(147 votes)   Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries. Science fails to recognise the single most Potent element of human existence. Letting the reigns go to the unfoldings faith, Science has failed our world. Science has failed our mother earth.

Serj Tankian
American Musician - b 1967

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(144 votes)   Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. ''And what are you reading, Miss -- -?'' ''Oh! it is only a novel!'' replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. ''It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ''; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Jane Austen
1775-1817, British Novelist

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(130 votes)   But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Antonin Artaud
1896-1948, French Theater Producer, Actor, Theorist

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(128 votes)   For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(128 votes)   I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ''Science Fiction'' and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
1922-, American Novelist

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(126 votes)   True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

Count Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher

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(122 votes)   The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it.

Daniel J. Boorstin
1914-, American Historian

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(119 votes)   Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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