Carl Sagan on Science Fiction

When I was little, starting about eight, nine, 10, science fiction held enormous fascination. I couldn't read textbooks, or atleast I didn't have access to textbooks that I could read, but there was a lot of science in science fiction and it was rippling with the sense of wonder. But as I got older, and could learn some science, I found the science to be more subtle, more complex, more challenging, more full of wonder and having the additional, not inconsiderable, virtue of being true. To whatever extent that, as I say, we are capable of understanding the truth.

Notes:

It holds the sense of wonder, but science is more subtle and sophisticated and therefore took over his attention.

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 Fresh Air Archive: Charles Haden and Carl Sagan
Audiovisual Media>Audio Recording:  Sagan , Carl and Gross, Terry (12-16-1999), Fresh Air Archive: Charles Haden and Carl Sagan, NPR Fresh Air, Retrieved on 2011-06-04
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