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 Read Quote
The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it’s like retiring. Frederik Pohl Read Quote
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people’s recollections, which change with time. Frederik Pohl Read Quote
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it. Frederik Pohl Read Quote
That’s the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens. Frederik Pohl Read Quote
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. Frederik Pohl Read Quote
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). Frederik Pohl Read Quote
