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Only a madman would claim that there is some thing unreal about reality.

— Brian Aldiss Aboard the Beatitude (2002)

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Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Barefoot in the Head (1969)

The shuffle only demonstrated people’s fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.

Greybeard (1964)

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Penguin Science Fiction (1961)

Poor little warrior, science will never invent anything to assist the titanic death you want in the contra-terrene caverns of your fee-fi-fo-fumblingly fearful id!

Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

There is only the pattern; the pattern is all the universe, creator and created.

Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Kenneth Boulding to Kenneth Boulding in: United States. Congress. House (1973)

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

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