History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

- John W. Campbell

Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die

- John W. Campbell

There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.

- John W. Campbell

It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a fine of fifty dollars and a j…

- John W. Campbell

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

- John W. Campbell

Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.

- John W. Campbell

Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

- John W. Campbell

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

- John W. Campbell

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

- John W. Campbell