Pinnacle Science Fiction

Famous quotes containing the words science fiction, pinnacle, science and/or fiction:

    “If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.”
    —Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)

    “Fives, and tens,
    Threes and fours and twelves,
    All the volte face of decimals,
    The whirligig of dozens and the pinnacle of seven.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.”
    —Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

    “The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal to the senses with abstractions.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)