"A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed……" — Poul Anderson

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of… - 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

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24 Quotes by Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos?
I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say,…
The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.
A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.
Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes…
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption…
Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.
Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a…
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had…
Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals,…
What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was…

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More Cannot Prove Quotes

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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but… — Roland Barthes
That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot… — Dan Brown
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan… — Bertrand Russell
Faith is believing what we cannot prove. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind… — Albert Einstein
About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember.… — Albert Einstein
Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once. — Kabir
Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation. — Louis Pasteur
The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a… — Martin Van Creveld
I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. — Bertrand Russell
I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists… — Carl Jung
There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is… — Bertrand Russell

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