73 Quotes by Frederik Pohl

The FDA just ordered them off the market. The glaze is supposed to be poison—provided you drink at least forty cups of tea out of one of them every day of your life for twenty years.

Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.