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I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

~Frederick Wiseman

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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.

~Frederik Pohl

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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.

~Frederik Pohl

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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.

~Frederik Pohl

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

~Frederik Pohl

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I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

~Frederik Pohl

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For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

~Fredric Jameson

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There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

~Fredrik Bajer

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I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.

~Freema Agyeman

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There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

~Freeman A. Hrabowski Iii

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