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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
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Science Quotes by Poul (William) Anderson (5)
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)
See also: | Universe (143)
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. In Carl C. Gaither, Statistically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations (1996), 187.
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)
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.
Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos?
— Poul (William) Anderson
The Broken Sword (1954)
See also: | Universe (143)
