Carl Sagan Quotes

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.

We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

I read a fair amount [of science fiction], and you know it was certainly inspirational. I have to pinch myself to think that we might be able to make some of [what I've read in science fiction books] come true.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

I like sci-fi.

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

I'm a fan of hard science fiction, which is science fiction that is possible.

I was a big fan of sci-fi.

Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars.

I was really interested in doing a really science fiction-based story because it's something I feel like I hadn't done yet.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It was one of my earliest interests as a writer, and I've just taken a long time to circle back around to it.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.

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.

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.