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“Whatever a woman is,” Wendre said, “she’s that second and a woman first.”

— Jack Williamson Star Bridge (1955)

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Human knowledge is never entirely consistent or complete, because the human brain is only a crude and transient mass of watery cells, error-prone and glacier-slow.

The Humanoid Universe (1980)

Human belief is seldom related to truth.

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SF still appeals to the young, as always, because so much of it is set in the futures in which they will be living.

Will Academe Kill SF? (1978)

Accelerating change has become almost the first fact of life.

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Conquerors live by conquest; the first failure is a signal for the conquered to rise against them.

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