27 Quotes by Jack Williamson

I got involved with it and sort of discovered the story chapter by chapter as I went along,

I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

It's worth exploring if it offers any potential at all to protect emergency responders or industrial workers. Without doing things like this, you'll never know where it could go.

I remember that milk fondly. We were not living too high on the hog.

That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,.

Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.