Isaac Asimov Quotes

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

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am certain that this belief is part of what keeps the 'Star Trek' fandom going.

Science fiction literature's focus is on ideas, the concept of change, and the impact on humanity. Those concepts are hard to capture on film. They work better in the mind.

Science fiction is the field that explores how change can affect us, for well or ill.

I'm a science-fiction fan. All science fiction ends up being reality.

I'll say this: I'm not so sure 'The Jetsons' had it so wrong.

To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be different and hopefully better than the present. Although I know that most - that many science fiction writings have been anti-utopias. And the reason for that is that it's much easier and more exciting to write about a really nasty future than a - placid, peaceful one.

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

When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which it would not be in the book I was about to write. In a sense, I intended 'Neuromancer', among other things, to be a critique of all the aspects of science fiction that no longer satisfied me.

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.

Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.