George Takei Quotes

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

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

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.

It's great to be able to work on some science fiction. I love the genre.

Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.

The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.

When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became a young artist, I was filling up my portfolio with alien planets and spacecraft and things like that.

The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.

I think what Stargate has going for it is a sense of humor about their science fiction.