I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

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.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.