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.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?

That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

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

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.