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James Blish quotes - page 2
The tribesmen understand this very well, although they would not describe it in the same terms I have. It is simply a working part of their lives. Do you think they would continue to consult me if they found that the advice that I gave them did not work? They are uncivilized, but they are not insane.
James Blish
The motto of the bureau,” Weinbaum said, "is, ‘sometimes something works.'
James Blish
Wells used the term originally to cover what we would today call ‘hard' science fiction, in which a conscientious attempt to be faithful to already known facts (as of the date of writing) was the substrate on which the story was to be built, and if the story was also to contain a miracle, it ought at least not to contain a whole arsenal of them.
James Blish
Something tells me that this isn't going to be as simple as it looks.
James Blish
Your concept is a tremendous network of inconsistencies.
James Blish
You'll remember I told you I was interested in the history of science. That involves trying to understand why there wasn't any science for so long, and why it went into eclipse almost every time it was rediscovered. I think I know why now. I think the human mind goes through a sort of cycle of fear. It can only take so much accumulated knowledge, and then it panics, and starts inventing reasons to throw everything over and go back to a Dark Age...every time with a new, invented mystical reason.
James Blish
"Though the wicked may hide, the claws of crabs are dangerous people in bridges,” Father Selahny intoned abruptly. As was the case with all his utterances, the group would doubtless find out what this one meant only after sorting out its mixed mythologies and folklores, and long after it was too late to do anything about it.
James Blish
This senseless advance of expensively trained and equipped men to certain and complete slaughter-men who as usual not only had no idea of what they were dying for, but had been actively misled about it-made about as much military sense as the Siege of Sevastopol or the Battle of the Marne. Certainly it was spectacular, but intellectually it was not even very interesting.
James Blish
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James Blish
Occupation:
American Author
Born:
May 23, 1921
Died:
July 30, 1975
Quotes count:
34
Wikipedia:
James Blish
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