Jeff Ayres famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I sleep better at night knowing that scientists can clone sheep.
-- Jeff Ayres

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If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.
Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

Jeff Ayres famous quotes

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