The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
More Quotes from Frederik Pohl:
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.Frederik Pohl
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
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.
Frederik Pohl
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
Cosmology, nuclear physics, I do try to keep up on. They get more complex, and then some of the old theories just don't work out.
Frederik Pohl
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.
Frederik Pohl
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.Walter Benjamin
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
Louisa May Alcott
An empty canvas is full.
Robert Rauschenberg