Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

-Aldiss, BrianWilson
Penguin Science Fiction, introduction.

   Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

-Asimov, Isaac
  'How Easy To See The Future', in Natural History,  Apr.

   Hebelievesthat sciencefictionistheapocalyptic literature of the 20th century, the authentic language of Auschwitz, Eniwetok and Aldermaston.He also believes that inner space, not outer, isthe real subject of science fiction.

-Ballard,J(ames) G(raham)
  Author's statement containedin abiographical note to The Drowned World.

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

-Theophrastus
Quoted in David Pickering Brewer'sTwentieth-Century Music (1994).