“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”
Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections
Source: The Corrections
“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”
"How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazine (April 1975);
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Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
In Joy Still Felt (1980), pp. 286-287
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“Science is not inevitable; this question is very fruitful indeed.”
Edgar Zilsel (1891–1944) Austrian historian and philosopher
In personal correspondence, quoted in Elisabeth Nemeth's chapter "Logical Empiricism and the History and Sociology of Science" in the Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism (2007) edited by Alan W. Richardson and Thomas Uebel.
“Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Robot Dreams (1986), introduction
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Charles Perrow book Normal Accidents
Source: 1980s and later, Normal Accidents, 1984, p. 356
Theodore Sturgeon (1918–1985) American speculative fiction writer
As quoted in The Issue at Hand: Studies in Contemporary Magazine Science Fiction (1964) by James Blish, p. 14
“Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science.”
Kurt Vonnegut book Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions (1973)
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
World Design Science Decade 1965-1975 Phase I (1965), Document 3 : Comprehensive Thinking, "Venus Proximity Day", p. 33 http://challenge.bfi.org/sites/challenge.bfi.org/files/pdf_files/wdsd_phase1_doc3.pdf <br class="br">1960s <br class="br">Context: One of my working assumptions which has been proven successful so often as seemingly to qualify it as a reliable tenet is that A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically. Others have probably stated the principle in many ways. The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe. At first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes a gradually awakening consciousness of the presence of new families of differentiating-out challenging concepts of every day prominence. It is with these randomly patterning families of separate concepts that evolution is about to deal integratively. As a now specific unitary problem it may be disposed of effectively when and if that unified problem becomes "adequately stated" and thereby comprehensibly solvable.