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Lyon Sprague DeCamp
(27 Nov 1907 - 6 Nov 2000)

American writer and biographer whose works include short stories, poems, novels, non-fiction and particularly science fiction.

Science Quotes by Lyon Sprague DeCamp (1)

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering—that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
— Lyon Sprague DeCamp
The Ancient Engineers (1963), 1.
See also:  |  Civilization (42)  |  Engineering (35)


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