Science Fiction Novels

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

    No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
    Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974)

    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)

    I have just opened Bacon’s “Advancement of Learning” for the first time, which I read with great delight. It is more like what Scott’s novels were than anything.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)