Poul Anderson Quotations

These lands are not always calm. We may well have more adventures ahead of us. But we shall meet them with high hearts.

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.

A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.

The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.

Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos?

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action.