Hugo Gernsback Quotes

#1. Hugo Gernsback invented pulp magazines and the grandfather paradox. Not bad for a charlatan.

James Gleick

#2. What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

Hugo Gernsback

#3. And that made him wonder if a person who is forced into bad situations over and over again when they're too weak or helpless to do anything about it will eventually make bad choices of their own simply because they've become habituated to them.

Jonathan Maberry

#4. Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

Hugo Gernsback

#5. When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.

Joy Bryant

#6. If you take the best of Wayne Dyer and add it to the best of Anthony Robbins, what you would have would only be half as good as Steve Chandler.

Dale Dauten

#7. People were, as he had long suspected, uniformly vile and rotten, vastly inferior to things. Objects never let you down.

Ruth Rendell

#8. Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.

Franz Kafka

#9. I started the movement of SF in America in 1908 through my first magazine, 'MODERN ELECTRICS.' At that time it was an experiment. Science fiction authors were scarce. There were not a dozen worth mentioning in the entire world

Hugo Gernsback

#10. My ultimate search has been for a muse.

Dominic Monaghan

#11. Rather than trying to master nature we should start with the basics of trying to understand nature, cooperate with nature.

Bryant McGill

#12. By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision

Hugo Gernsback

#13. I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.

Yitzhak Rabin

#14. Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

Hugo Gernsback