Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. -Ray Bradbury Imagination
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. -Ray Bradbury Chance
I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars. -Ray Bradbury Space
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. -Ray Bradbury Intelligence
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. -Ray Bradbury Time
Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. -Ray Bradbury Men
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. -Ray Bradbury Knowledge
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. -Ray Bradbury Science
I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. -Ray Bradbury Politics
We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever. -Ray Bradbury Chance
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. -Ray Bradbury Morning
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. -Ray Bradbury Science
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. -Ray Bradbury Great
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. -Ray Bradbury Morning
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. -Ray Bradbury Imagination
