Ray Bradbury on Science
Browse 10 quotations attributed to Ray Bradbury, catalogued under Science, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Ray Bradbury, entry #75853: "Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."
Attributed to Ray Bradbury, entry #151299: "I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck."
10 Quotes by Ray Bradbury on Science
"Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."
"I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck."
"We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves."
"Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off."
"Most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things."
"You should read in your own field only when you're young. When I was 8, 10, 12, 16, 25, I read science fiction. But then I went on to Alexander Pope and John Donne and Moliere to mix it up."
"I’m a magician who writes about ideas. I’m not a science-fiction writer. People who call me that are wrong. Most of what I write is fantasy or magic realism or plays about my Mexican-American background."
"In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required."
"I don't care what the science fiction trade technicians say, either. They are furious that I get away with murder. I use a scientific idea as a platform to leap into the air and never come back. This keeps them angry at me. They still begrudge my putting an atmosphere on Mars in The Martian Chronicles more than 40 years ago."
"Science Fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. 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."