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Harlan Ellison
(27 May 1934 - )
American author whose career began in the mid 1950s in the science fiction genre. He has written or editted more than seventy books. His short stories number over twelve hundred.
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Science Quotes by Harlan Ellison (3 quotes)
People don’t die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that’s Progress, isn’t it?
Isn’t it?
Isn’t it?
— Harlan Ellison
Short Story, 'Jeffty is Five', (1977), collected in Donald A. Wollheim (ed.), The 1978 Annual World’s Best SF (1978), 164.
The real name for 'science' is magic.
— Harlan Ellison
Jeffty is Five (1977). Quoted in Gary Westfahl, Science Fiction Quotations (2005), 322.
The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and human stupidity.
— Harlan Ellison
Seen in various published collections of quotes. It may be in Harlan Ellison and Arnie Fenner (ed.) bugf#ck: The Worthless Wit & Wisdom of Harlan Ellison (2011), but as yet Webmaster has not seen a copy to verify the quote. [Please contact if you know the primary source.]