46 quotes
Facts are facts! And if they’re impossible, they’re still facts!
Time Tunnel (1964)
Hoddan felt the anger any man feels when he sees betrayal of that honor a competent machine represents.
The Pirates of Zan (1959)
And, just as she had responded to primitive prowess, so Ron reacted to feminine admiration by an enormously increased urge to accomplish.
The End (1946)
His reasoning was emotional, and therefore simple.
Time Tunnel (1964)
He was in a state of doubt which passed very well for modesty.
The Pirates of Zan (1959)
This was the second time in his life he’d been on a horse. It was two too many.
The Pirates of Zan (1959)
My purpose is not to make profits, but to keep people from being killed. Quaint, eh? But I’m one of the people I don’t want killed.
Things Pass By (1945)
But it might not be true enough. It might be less than...well...sufficiently true in a particular instance.
The Pirates of Zan (1959)
“Put dispassionately,” said Haynes cheerfully, “you sound like you’re crazy. But you’re stating facts. Okay so far.”
The Skit-Tree Planet (1947)
They raise the question of whether I’ve been crazy, and am suddenly sane, or whether I’ve been sane up to now, and have suddenly gone crazy.
The Wailing Asteroid (1960)
There was bitter resistance to the idea. It was demanded that Burke justify his views in a more reasonable way than by mere demonstration that they worked.
The Wailing Asteroid (1960)
He’d caused the First Native War on Mars, by taking advantage of the fact that at that time human law had not defined the killing of Martians as murder.
Anthropological Note (1957)
It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.
Time Tunnel (1964)
Hoddan fumbled for her meaning. It wasn’t quite an apology for trying to get him killed. But at least it was a disclaimer of future intentions in that direction.
The Pirates of Zan (1959)
Lane understood. Burke was one of that considerable part of humanity which enthusiastically believes in anything that’s sufficiently dramatic.
War with the Gizmos (1958)
From the Near Rim to the farthest of occupied systems, planets circled their suns, and men lived on them, and every man took himself seriously and did not quite believe that the universe had existed before he was born or would long survive his loss.
The Pirates of Zan (1959)
It couldn’t happen! Hoddan couldn’t conceive of such a thing. But a recently developed pessimism suggested that since everything else, to date, had been to his disadvantage, this was probably a catastrophe also.
The Pirates of Zan (1959)
Herb doctor is the polite term used by witch doctors when they advertise their services in newspapers. It is commonly believed that they can relieve all situations not caused by a judge or a grand jury.
War with the Gizmos (1958)
Again time passed. In one of the remoter galaxies a supernova flamed, and on a rocky, barren world a small living thing squirmed experimentally—and to mankind the one event was just as important as the other.
The Pirates of Zan (1959)
As a young man he was considered promising. If he had been interested in such matters, he might have had a moderately successful career in politics, as politics was practiced in his nation. But he liked things. Real things.
The Wailing Asteroid (1960)