Okay, this is bizarre. At the library today I checked out a book (The Writer's Guide to Creating a Science Fiction Universe, George Ochoa and Jeffrey Osier, Writer's Digest Books, 1993, page 1) and what do I find as the pre-Introduction quote?
Arthur C. Clarke: It should never be forgotten that without some foundation of reality, science fiction would be impossible, and that therefore exact knowledge is the friend, not the enemy, of imagination and fantasy.
Cool, huh? This also ties neatly (speaking of the Asimov/Clarke Treaty) with a quote that I greatly enjoy (The Solar System and Back, Isaac Asimov, Doubleday & Company, 1970, page 124).
Isaac Asimov (following a treatise on the absurdity of the "a giant insect could carry a huge load and jump huge distances" theory): You will find such nonsense nowhere in the S.F. magazines of today. Movies and television, however (with some notable and honorable exceptions such as "Star Trek") are still in the infantile stage as far as science fiction is concerned.
Yay! Trek isn't infantile!
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