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Ray Bradbury on Science

1920–2012 United States

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7 quotes

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Science-fiction works hand-in-glove with the universe.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

The Circus of Dr. Lao Introduction (1956)

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

Science fiction pretends to look into the future but it’s really looking at a reflection of what is already in front of us.

The Paris Review interview (2010)

Science Fiction is the fiction of ideas.

The Paris Review interview (2010)

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."

Playboy interview (1996)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ray Bradbury (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.