"I don't think it had ever occurred to……" — John Wyndham
"I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost."
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John Wyndham
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28 Quotes by John Wyndham
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We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a…
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Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for
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Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.
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Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
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If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.
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The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital
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To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite…
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The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy…
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No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man…
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I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes…
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But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets.…
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Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
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