"Will none wipe the sneer of the face…" — Poul Anderson
"Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos?"
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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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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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I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had…
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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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More Cosmos Quotes
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Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up…
— Roseanne Barr
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his…
— Alfred Adler
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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our…
— Carl Sagan
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My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man…
— Benjamin De Casseres
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When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything…
— Nhat Hanh
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What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony…
— Albert Einstein
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Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating…
— Camille Paglia
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Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to…
— Deepak Chopra
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The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
— Poul Anderson
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