Poul Anderson

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

— Poul Anderson

“I’ve yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn’t become still more complicated.”

— Poul Anderson

Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star,…

— Poul Anderson

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

— Poul Anderson

“Happier are all men than the beings of faerie – or the gods, for that matter,’ he said. ‘Better a life like…

— Poul Anderson

Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world…

— Poul Anderson

“And if you were not trained, the lesser members of the galaxy that had become visible were so many as to drown…

— Poul Anderson

If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

— Poul Anderson

“Survivor—under what conditions?” “Any conditions. Adaptability, toughness, quickness—those are the things that count most.” “I think kindness means a lot,” said Sheila…

— Poul Anderson

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

— Poul Anderson

“You simply do not understand the human condition,” said the robot. Hah! Do you think you do, you conceited hunk of animated…

— Poul Anderson

So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one…

— Poul Anderson

Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and…

— Poul Anderson

“And the Milky Way belted heaven with ice and silver, and the Magellanic Clouds were not vague shimmers but roiling and glowing;…

— Poul Anderson

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

— Poul Anderson

“he claimed to be one of the last true conservatives—only, to conserve, you had to prune and graft and adjust.”

— Poul Anderson

A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

— Poul Anderson

Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

— Poul Anderson

“Momentarily a wing of zodiacal radiance could be seen, like a halo over the rising fire-disk.”

— Poul Anderson

“That,' he confessed aloud, 'was as ludicrous a case of mutual ineptitude as the gods of slapstick ever engineered. We both deserve…

— Poul Anderson

Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?

— Poul Anderson

“Sheila, you’ve got to hang on. All this is just an increased power to think—to visualize, to handle data and the dreams…

— Poul Anderson

Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is…

— Poul Anderson

Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

— Poul Anderson

Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of…

— Poul Anderson