Paul Davies Quotes

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'

Star Trek's genial premise is that the cosmos is flush with intelligent species, and our descendants will interact with them face-to-face, thanks to warp drive and some winsome space cadets.

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play.

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

I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.

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

I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I came out with the atom bomb two years before it was actually used because I read in the paper that a fellow named Nicola Tesla was working on the atom bomb.

I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.

Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes up in science fiction, the author can only reply that nobody knows. We haven't been there yet. We haven't discovered that yet. Science fiction hasn't happened.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time machines, et cetera, taking them literally, not caring if they are possible or even plausible. It has no interest in or relation to real science or technology. It's fantasy in space suits. Spectacle. Wizards with lasers. Kids with ray guns. I've written both, but I have to say I respect science fiction enough that I wince when people call it sci-fi.

I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time travel, the discovery of green monsters on other planets or galaxies, or that contain various technologies we have not yet developed.

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be able to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders he is describing really can come true... and that gets tricky when you take a good, hard look at the world around you.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.