73 Quotes by Frederik Pohl

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.

There is a method which distinguishes SF from fantasy, though a lot of the science fiction written does not go by that method, and some fantasy does.

Cosmology, nuclear physics, I do try to keep up on. They get more complex, and then some of the old theories just don't work out.

The way you write science fiction is: you sit down at your writing machine and you open your mind to the first thought that comes through.

A lot of science fiction is science-based, and it comes about because people notice something interesting about science and work it into a story.

On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.