Futuristic Ideas Quotes

Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means.

I like sci-fi that is not entirely impossible.

I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have come upon ideas that, with the passing decades, have either materialized of come close to materializing.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

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 readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

I wasn't an avid watcher of the original 'Star Trek.' But they'd pull out this thing to communicate without wires and you thought, 'Yeah, right.' Now... we're doing that with cellphones. So I think our minds are more open to the unimaginable.

If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.

I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.

Maybe in this Star Wars world maybe subconsciously I was preparing myself. But I've just found all of my ideas I've been coming up with are big sci-fi things, and I wanted to do a big epic, a big space opera, and this is it. This is mine.

Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

I like thinking about what could be out there, and I love the questions that sci-fi poses.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

I like science fiction. I am quite a technologically kind of up-to-date person. I like seeing what the new developments are.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

There's so much overlapping in science fiction.

Let's create a World's Fair that captures everybody's visions of tomorrow together and let's celebrate that vision. Let's have articles on it with illustrators imagining how we'd be living differently.

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

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