Quotes tagged ‘Science Fiction’

“One of the great lessons of time travel is that many things cannot be changed. Time wants to happen.”

— Andrew Kreisberg, Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer, Rip Hunter, Arthur Darvill, imdb.com

“The further back in time you go, the worse the side effects.”

— Andrew Kreisberg, Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer, Rip Hunter, Arthur Darvill, imdb.com

“If you want to change something forever, you can’t ever go back. Going back erases what you did before.”

— Bridget Carpenter, Al Templeton, Chris Cooper, imdb.com

“I need you to do what I couldn’t. I need you to go back there to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy.”

— Bridget Carpenter, Al Templeton, Chris Cooper, imdb.com

“Sadie: I could swear I do know you. Who are you? Jake: Someone you knew in another life.”

— Bridget Carpenter, Jake Epping, James Franco, imdb.com

“Earthers have a home. It’s time Belters had one, too.”

— Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Anderson Dawes, Jared Harris, imdb.com

“I don’t ever remember a time when Earth, Mars and the Belt weren’t fighting. The sides change sometimes. What we think we’re fighting for. Who we tell ourselves are the good people. But it just seems we can’t ever stop fighting war after war after war. It’s part of being human. An ugly part, but I d…”

— Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Naren Shankar, Naomi Nagata, Dominique Tipper, imdb.com

“When I die, I'm going to leave my body to science fiction.”

— Steven Wright, avclub.com

“I do not think we live in a scientific and technological age, as a society. I think most people do not like science and technology. They’re scared of it. All you have to do is watch science-fiction movies — they all show technology that doesn’t work, or they’re dystopian.”

— Peter Thiel, washingtonpost.com

“Well I am worried about people being plugged in all the time and losing all human contact and there’s been many SF stories along those lines. That is the real danger.”

— Arthur C. Clarke, spikemagazine.com

“Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible.”

— Rod Serling, theguardian.com

“The only UFOs I'm interested in now are ones where people see and approach an artifact and forget all about lights in the sky mystery-things. We should only be concerned with close encounters. Either they exist or they don't exist.”

— Arthur C. Clarke, futurism.media

“I've said all I want to say in both fiction and nonfiction, at least at this point. But that doesn't mean in five years or so I won't recharge my batteries and start writing again.”

— Arthur C. Clarke, futurism.media

“But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.”

— Arthur C. Clarke, amazon.com

“In the year 1830, after the formation of Starways Congress, a robot scout ship sent a report by ansible: The planet it was investigating was well within the parameters for human life.”

— Orson Scott Card, amazon.com