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The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

— Paul Krugman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

— Rudy Rucker

Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently.

— Samuel R. Delany

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

— Karen Armstrong

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

— Bernard Werber

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

— Alfred Bester

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

— Nicolas Cage

We are living in a science fiction world.

— George Takei

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

✗Opposing Perspectives

I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.

— Geoff Ryman