Brains are no good if you don't use them.

- Alexei Panshin

There is a lesson that I learned at twelve - the world does not end at the edge of a quad. There are people outside. The world does not end on the Fo…

- Alexei Panshin

You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return.

- Alexei Panshin

It appears that the ground of being which underlies and sustains us despite our various inadequate and conflicting stories must be extremely tolera…

- Alexei Panshin

I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are dispos…

- Alexei Panshin

If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him well enough for the act to have imp…

- Alexei Panshin

Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theo…

- Alexei Panshin

This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great suite of rooms inhabited by vast numbers of…

- Alexei Panshin

Some people get a feeling of power from being unpleasant.

- Alexei Panshin