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Quotes from Giants in the Earth — James Blish

1921–1975 United States

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Sam was too good a scientist to let that hope creep into his hypothesizing.

Giants in the Earth (1952)

Of course a sense of guilt has a threshold; at a certain level of intensity it begins to confirm the habit-pattern rather than inhibit it—

Giants in the Earth (1952)

The subject was complex enough to nurture family splits as rancorous and as final as the theological hairsplitting which had been the bane of other ages.

Giants in the Earth (1952)

You may as well go, Maurice. You can’t undo what you’ve done in any case, nor can I expect to talk to you out of whatever it is you’re planning. But I will tell you this: Your sanity is dubious.

Giants in the Earth (1952)

High intelligence did not imply superior ability to come to terms with one’s social environment; indeed, there seemed to be some sort of rough correlation between high intelligence and the accumulation of aberrations.

Giants in the Earth (1952)

All but a small percentage of Americans live out of their lives without ever coming closer to murder than the daily tabloid can bring them, though magazine fiction and video confer spurious intimacy with the subject.

Giants in the Earth (1952)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Blish (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.