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Ready for a dose of science fiction inspiration? Look no further! We’ve gathered an amazing collection of science fiction quotes from some of the most creative minds in history. From science fiction writers to tech entrepreneurs and filmmakers, these inspiring sci-fi quotes will help you think outside the box and spark your own creativity. So if you’re ready to be inspired, let’s take a look at some science fiction quotes that will help fuel your imagination!
Inspiring science fiction quotes from famous Sci-Fi writers
J. G. Ballard
“Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.”
― J. G. Ballard
“We live inside an enormous novel…in a world ruled by fictions of every kind… mass merchandising… politics conducted as a branch of advertising… for the writer it is less and less necessary to invent the fictional content of their novel. The fiction is already there.”
― J. G. Ballard
Ray Bradbury
“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.”
― Ray Bradbury
“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.”
― Ray Bradbury
Douglas Adams
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Arthur C. Clarke
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible
“Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
“One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
Isaac Asimov
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
– Isaac Asimov, Book of Science and Nature Quotations
“Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.”
– Isaac Asimov
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
– Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
– Isaac Asimov, Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
– Isaac Asimov
“People think of education as something they can finish.”
– Isaac Asimov
“You can prove anything you want by a coldly logical reason – if you pick the proper postulates.”
– Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
“There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.”
– Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
“Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.”
– Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict—its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts, then vanished of itself—what’s the expression—ah, yes, ‘not with a bang, but a whimper,’ as the economic and social environment changed. And then, new problems, and a new series of wars.”
– Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”
– Isaac Asimov
“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.”
– Isaac Asimov
William Gibson
“The future is there… looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
“The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson, The Economist, December 4, 2003
“When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer
Marie Lu
“Everything’s science fiction until someone makes it science fact.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross
Terry Pratchett
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
Frederik Pohl
“That’s really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.”
― Frederik Pohl
Rod Serling
“Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.”
― Rod Serling
Gene Roddenberry
“For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.”
– Gene Roddenberry
James Gunn
“Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger.”
― James Gunn
Inspiring science fiction quotes from famous Scientists
Albert Einstein
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
― Albert Einstein
Carl Sagan
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Marie Curie
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie
Steven Hawking
“Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.”
― Steven Hawking
Seth Shostak
“By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn’t mean that they are brains, but it means that in terms of raw processing, they can process bits as fast as a brain can. So the question is, how far behind that is the development of a machine that’s as smart as we are?”
― Seth Shostak
Inspiring science fiction quotes from famous Tech Entrepreneurs
Elon Musk
“If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
― Elon Musk
Mark Zuckerberg
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.”
― Mark Zuckerberg
Steve Jobs
“Your time is limited. Don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
― Steve Jobs
Dean Kamen
“Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That’s what technology can do.”
― Dean Kamen
