What a brilliant statement, most if not all of our modern scientists started out as kids reading science fiction. It will give you a foundation in scientific concepts of all the sciences, social as well as political, economical and the hard sciences and biology as well. Supported by another great quote by Robert G. Ingersoll "We are indebted solely to science- the only lever capabel of raising mankind. Abject faith is barbarism; reason is civilization. To obey is slavish; to act from a sense of obligation perceived by the reason, is noble. Ignorance worships mystery; Reason explains it: the one grovels, the other soars."