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David Brin quotes about science

American Author October 6, 1950

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Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases. David Brin
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. David Brin
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives. David Brin
As sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon said, 90 percent of everything is crap. But science fiction has not been forgiven for its crap. The reason is that science fiction inherently distrusts the 'eternal verities' on which literature graduates base their doctoral dissertations. Literature departments were uncomfortable with that. But things change. David Brin
But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science. David Brin

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