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. (John Thomas Sladek)

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.

John Thomas Sladek

Related topics

kind making science sense way

Related quotes

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Bertrand Russell

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.

Theodore Sturgeon

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

Natalie Portman

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Bertrand Russell

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Theodore Sturgeon