Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.
– Miriam Allen de Ford
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- Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible. – Rod Serling
- Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. – Rod Serling
- Religion deals with beliefs and faith, but science deals with truth and facts. – Debasish Mridha MD
- You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history – Iain Banks
- I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction. – Matthew S Williams
- All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children…. – Robertson Davies
- Half of what I write is imaginative reality. The other half is realized impossibilities. Blended into one, these make a fantasy. – Nicole Sager
- I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities, – CS Lewis
- Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction – David Mitchell
- Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science. – C JoyBell C
- It’s fiction, the improbable is very probable in my worlds – HQ Frost
- Science Non Fiction/ Fantasy = Future – Deyth Banger
- Science fiction is when we see into the future of our planet, fantasy is when we believe humanity will survive. – Kaz Lefave
- Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy. – JG Ballard
- The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction. – TL Rese
- science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present. – Judith B Kerman
- General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. – Marvin Minsky
- If contemporary literary fiction doesn’t read a bit like science fiction then it’s probably not all that contemporary, is it – Warren Ellis
- Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams. – Freeman Dyson
- Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. – Susan Sontag
- Everything’s science fiction until someone makes it science fact – Marie Lu
- Good science fiction has its roots in good science. – Dan Brown
- I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction – Marcus Chown
- I know nothing – nothing in the world – of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone – horribly alone. – Ford Madox Ford
- But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation. – Ford Madox Ford
- Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? – Julian Barnes
- …a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- Hallucinations aren’t always out of the ordinary. How do we know we’re not hallucinating if everything seems plausible? – Dominic Riccitello
- To isolate life from danger is a mission impossible! To take precautions against the dangers, that is the necessary and plausible mission! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- You’re . . . their absolute fantasy. Of course I’m jealous. You’re their fantasy and mine. – Katy Evans
- She probably had her nose stuck in a book, living in a pretend fantasy world while I was actually out there living in the real fantasy world. – Jennifer L Armentrout
- To write you dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another’s dreams. – Rob Shepherd
- To write your dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another’s dreams – Rob Shepherd
- But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness. – Daphne du Maurier
- The thing about past love is that they exist, only in your fantasy as a fantasy. – Hafsa Shah
- There are three impossibilities in life: God cannot lie, God cannot change and finally, I cannot be a poor man. – Ikechukwu Izuakor
- Great men dare the giant of impossibilities – Topsy Gift
- In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. – Janos Arnay
- There’s always impossibilities in dreams. Dream more. – Roshani Chokshi
- In my lifetime I have witnessed far too many miracles to believe in impossibilities, and so I am officially modifying the defini – Richelle E Goodrich