"One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments." ― Rudy Rucker Topic(s): Attitude Tags: things More From Rudy Rucker "Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens." "Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction." "Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail." More In Attitude "The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care."― Jim Fowler "It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order."― Asa Gray "Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying."― Marilyn vos Savant