Occupation: Author Birth: January 26, 1918 Death: February 25, 2009
Tomorrow changes the face of reality..
Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." Another fairy tale to give men hope . The old religions have bee….
As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth..
Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage..
Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got..
Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago..
Dreams haunted The Riverworld..
The way is open, comrades, free as Space Alone is free. The only gold is love, A coin that we have minted from the light Of others who have cared ….
Burton did not believe in miracles . Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles if you knew all the facts ..
One thing is sure, O comrades, that the love That fights to keep us rooted in the earth, But also urges us to dare the stars, This irresistible, t….
Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built b….
Miles above the Earth we know , Fancy's rocket roars. Below, Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket's li….
Despite my vast interest in other universes and new ideas and space, travel and time travel, which by the way I think is impossible, the basic thing ….
Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich strange fish, grow long b….
Call me Meier," Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke ..
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no go….
It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed..
Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man's faith , and you knew at least half the man. Kn….
There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work..
It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and all that. But….
Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural..