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Philip José Farmer
(26 Jan 1918 - )

American author whose prolific writing career in science fiction stretches over fifty years from the late 1950s, while at the time, he was a technical writer. He is also known as Philipé Jos Farmer.

Science Quotes by Philip José Farmer (2)

Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.
By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant, vibrates through the strands and affects every man.
— Philip José Farmer
Riders of the Purple Wage (1967). In Gary Westfahl, Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits (2006), 1.
See also:  |  Action (21)  |  Chaos (22)  |  Consequence (12)

Nature is an experimenter.
— Philip José Farmer
Prometheus (1961). In Down in the Black Gang: And Others; a Story Collection (1971), 141.
See also:  |  Evolution (237)  |  Experiment (218)  |  Nature (255)


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