Quote by Iain Banks
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolutio

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. – Iain Banks

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A lot of what the Culture is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens. – Iain Banks

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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. – Iain Banks

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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. – E. B. White

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Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. – Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis, 1905

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We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. Thats the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We dont talk about football or anything like that. – Kevin J. Anderson

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The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science. – Phillip E. Johnson

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