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