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Poul (William) Anderson
(25 Nov 1926 - 31 Jul 2001)

American author whose first story was published in 1946 when 20 years old. He continued writing, and in the next fifty years produced many science fiction books

Science Quotes by Poul (William) Anderson (5 quotes)

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
— Poul (William) Anderson
Ghetto (1954)
Science quotes on:  |  Ability (162)  |  Cosmos (64)  |  Faith (209)  |  Great (1610)  |  Man (2252)  |  Understand (648)  |  Universe (900)

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
— Poul (William) Anderson
Quoted in William Thorpe, 'Reduction v. Organicism,' New Scientist, 25 Sep 1969, 43, No 66, 638. As cited in Carl C. Gaither, Statistically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations (1996), 187.
Science quotes on:  |  Become (821)  |  Complicated (117)  |  Look (584)  |  More (2558)  |  Problem (731)  |  Research (753)  |  Right (473)  |  See (1094)  |  Still (614)  |  Way (1214)

If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.
— Poul (William) Anderson
The Saturn Game (1981)
Science quotes on:  |  Expect (203)  |  Exploration (161)  |  Reason (766)  |  Solar System (81)  |  System (545)  |  Throughout (98)

When facts are insufficient, theorizing is ridiculous at best, misleading at worst.
— Poul (William) Anderson
The Queen of Air and Darkness (1971). Quoted in Gary Westfahl, Science Fiction Quotations (2005), 322.
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Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos?
— Poul (William) Anderson
The Broken Sword (1954)
Science quotes on:  |  Cosmos (64)  |  Face (214)  |  Sneer (9)  |  Universe (900)  |  Will (2350)


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