“To rise from the national level to the level of mankind, I call that progress. And that's what's so admirable. For a man to progress, once he has reached the White House-I wouldn't have thought it possible.” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“You can ask a President to provide for two years ahead, maybe for twenty or even thirty years, but not for two hundred or… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“The army had little attraction for him, but it afforded him the possibility of taking a great step toward his goal. After all, if the military saw fit to replace the body that he was planning to liberate from the earth's gravity with an explosive charge, this was a mere detail, at any rate so far as the preliminary experiments… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share
“I racked my brains to discover some sense in the events I had witnessed. I needed this intellectual exercise to escape from the despair that haunted me, to prove to myself that I was a man, I mean a man from Earth, a reasoning creature who made it a habit to discover a logical explanation for the apparently miraculous whims… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share
“This time I felt it was impossible that they could entertain further doubt as to my true condition. Alas, I did not yet know… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“No country in the world can continue to spend what we are sacrificing for the moon without rapidly being reduced to utter ruin.” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share
“... the heritage of mankind is not the earth but the entire universe,” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“The man who eventually reached the moon would be traveling in a vessel made of earthly materials.” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“But how could one hold this against her when faced with the perfection of her body? Suddenly” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“The moon, the serene moon, was creating a conflict of opinion in America almost as violent as the racial problem.” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was an ape,… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“In the field of technology, simplification is always an enormous advance...” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
