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

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

Poul Anderson quotes: Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

Poul Anderson quotes: We can't go on ... having regular bowel movements ... while creation happens!

We can't go on ... having regular bowel movements ... while creation happens!

Poul Anderson quotes: Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

Poul Anderson quotes: A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

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

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

Poul Anderson quotes: My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

Poul Anderson quotes: I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.

Poul Anderson quotes: You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.

You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.

Poul Anderson quotes: There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals.

There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals.

Poul Anderson quotes: Their flight was not less exhilarating for being explainable.

Their flight was not less exhilarating for being explainable.

Poul Anderson quotes: The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.

The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.

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

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

Poul Anderson quotes: If nothing else, we today need a reminder that we must never take civilization for granted. I

If nothing else, we today need a reminder that we must never take civilization for granted. I

Poul Anderson quotes: A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.

A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.

Poul Anderson quotes: Momentarily a wing of zodiacal radiance could be seen, like a halo over the rising fire-disk.

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

Poul Anderson quotes: for a moment infinitesimal and infinite, men, women, child, ship, and death were one. It

for a moment infinitesimal and infinite, men, women, child, ship, and death were one. It

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

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

Poul Anderson quotes: I am told that our chroniclers' practice of inventing speeches for great persons whose lives they write is unscholarly.

I am told that our chroniclers' practice of inventing speeches for great persons whose lives they write is unscholarly.

Poul Anderson quotes: Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

Poul Anderson quotes: Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos?

Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos?

Poul Anderson quotes: I'll have to jump around like sodium in the rain.

I'll have to jump around like sodium in the rain.

Poul Anderson quotes: Why do most people think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?

Why do most people think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?

Poul Anderson quotes: Poor old G.K.C.! It's too bad he didn't live to see the change. What paradoxes he would have dreamed up!

Poor old G.K.C.! It's too bad he didn't live to see the change. What paradoxes he would have dreamed up!

Poul Anderson quotes: I've yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn't become still more complicated.

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

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

Poul Anderson quotes: Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.

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

Poul Anderson quotes: Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

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

Poul Anderson quotes: These lands are not always calm. We may well have more adventures ahead of us. But we shall meet them with high hearts.

These lands are not always calm. We may well have more adventures ahead of us. But we shall meet them with high hearts.

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

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

Poul Anderson quotes: Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

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

Poul Anderson quotes: We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?