I keep finding this quote online attributed to Ray Bradbury without any source at all listed. I want to use it for a paper but "collected from the internet" sounds really lame.

"Science fiction is really, sociological studies of the future; things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together."

Is it really by Bradbury? Where did it come from?

Thanks so much!

I'll take a stab in the semi -darkness.

I'll say it isn't Ray: 81%
It is Ray: 19%

Blah. Was such a good quote for what I was doing too. Have to "define science fiction as a genre" mostly in regards to movies. Blech. They threw out the freshman english cluster from my old college and give me assignments like this....uhm...yeah ranting in my second post is real smart.

Sorry, I go off the deepend too easy.

Hey:: 19% is NOTsaying it isn't Ray.

I heard him speak a lot and never heard him quite say THAT. He considers 'Fahrenheit 451' his 'only' science-fiction novel, and really dislikes the label they put on all his books, at least in the past....
which says 'world's greatest living science fiction writer'... Maybe someone else has an idea... hold on...the night is young!

Oh, it's not really upsetting, just a bit boggling that it's such a popular quote about science fiction but I can never find it with a source besides "Ray Bradbury".

Actually it's all misplaced annoyance at the fact that the rest of this "group" for this "group project" is out of town or so short tempered they are without net access.

It apparently involved a laptop and a car battery.

Nard, I would agree with your guess.