Quotes on Martian Chronicles

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.

The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves

Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?