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Ray Bradbury
(22 Aug 1920 - )
American science-fiction writer who is one of the most popular writers, whose output includes the genres of fantasy, mystery and horror. From the 1950s, his work has been produced as films, TV programs and radio dramas, such as The Martian Chronicles (TV miniseries, 1980), and It Came From Outer Space (movie, 1953).
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Science Quotes by Ray Bradbury (1)
What is there about fire that's so lovely? ... It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. Or almost perpetual motion. ... What is fire? It's a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know.
[Fahrenheit 451 refers to the temperature at which book paper burns. In the short novel of this title 'firemen' burn books forbidden by the totalitaran regime.]
[Fahrenheit 451 refers to the temperature at which book paper burns. In the short novel of this title 'firemen' burn books forbidden by the totalitaran regime.]
— Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 (1953, 1996), 115.
See also: | Book (42) | Fire (22) | Invention (93) | Molecule (42) | Mystery (29) | Perpetual Motion (2) | Scientist (78)
