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Susan Sontag
(16 Jan 1933 - 28 Dec 2004)
American novelist and essayist whose works include Illness as a Metaphor (1978) inspired by her own near-death experience with breast cancer.
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Science Quotes by Susan Sontag (4 quotes)
Contemporary attitudes—as reflected in science fiction films—remain ambivalent, that the scientist is treated as both satanist and savior.
— Susan Sontag
From essay 'The Imagination of Disaster', collected in Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966, 2001), 218.
No one thinks of concealing the truth from a cardiac patient: there is nothing shameful about a heart attack. Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene—in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
— Susan Sontag
In Illness as a Metaphor (1978), 8,
One of the branches of literature—science fiction is … aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.
— Susan Sontag
From essay 'The Imagination of Disaster', collected in Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966, 2001), 346.
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
— Susan Sontag
From essay 'The Imagination of Disaster', collected in Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966, 2001), 213.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
