I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
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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
My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.
Frederik Pohl
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
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.
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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
People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
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