Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Boston Book Review interview by Harvey Blume http://www.dorislessing.org/boston.html (February 1998)
“This is an exercise in fictional science, or science fiction, if you like that better. Not for amusement: science fiction in the service of science. Or just science, if you agree that fiction is a part of it, always was, and always will be as long as our brains are only miniscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.”
Source: Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (1984), p. 1
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "This is an exercise in fictional science, or science fiction, if you like that better. Not for amusement: science ficti…" by Valentino Braitenberg?
Valentino Braitenberg12
Italian-Austrian neuroscientist 1926–2011Related quotes
“There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.”
Steven Spielberg (1946) American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur
The Making of Jurassic Park
“Science Fiction is the fiction of ideas.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: 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.
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: 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.
Media Kashigar (1956–2017) Iranian translator, writer and poet
Source: Iranian Students News Agency, 2004 http://www.isna.ir/news/8307-08004/%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A%DA%AF%D8%B1-%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D9%83%D9%87-%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B7-%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1
“I've always thought that science fiction films set in our world have always rung false.”
Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer
Interview about The Dark Crystal (1982)
“Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science.”
Kurt Vonnegut book Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions (1973)
Neal Stephenson (1959) American science fiction writer
A Conversation With Neal Stephenson http://www.sfsite.com/10b/ns67.htm