David Hanson Quotes

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

I love sci-fi and period pieces - it's fantasy. I can let myself dream a little bit. But also, I just really love science. I love knowing about how the world works.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

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

Not all SF or fantasy has to inspire new scientists and engineers.

A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to solve them. Then, in solving them, they give us greater capability.

Science fiction is boring when someone starts explaining the science to me.

As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.

We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

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

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.