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Frederik Pohl Quotes

American - Writer | November 26, 1919 - September 2, 2013

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

Thought First Always Still Cigarette

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).

Science Great Believe Reading Grades

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.

World Start You Look See Up

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

Science People Me Research Never

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.

Run Him Up Little Planet Things

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

Science Care Enough You Want Try

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.

Science Think Fact Much Relate Very

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

Science Book Doing Chasing Spectator

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

Science Science Fiction Fiction Clear

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Science Reading Science Fiction Been

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.

Reading Head Ten Stories He

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.

Time Ideas Interesting Enough Early

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