Philip Elmer-DeWitt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

  • The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

  • Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

  • Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

  • Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.

  • History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

  • Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

  • All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

  • Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

  • You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference.

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