Marvin Minsky Quotes

Science fiction is an extension of science.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book.

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

Science fiction is something I never understood.

Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't believe 'The War of the Worlds' or 'The Time Machine' have ever been bettered. Plus, I have always had a liking for Victorian and Edwardian clothes and contraptions, which tends to color the worlds I dream up.

I love science fiction.

Science fiction is not formulaic.

I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

I love the sci-fi world and the way it makes me start to question things.

I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

The whole point of science fiction is that you explore the effect of ideas on a society.

It seems to realize itself to be some of the most exciting TV and films that are made. Sci-fi just has that ability.

Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The '30s to the '50s were the golden age of science fiction - this was because, to a large degree, it was at this point that technology and science had exposed its potential without revealing the limitations.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

I love science fiction.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

I grew up reading science fiction.