Jack Williamson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
-- Jack Williamson

#Kids #Imagination #Young
Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
-- Jack Williamson

#Imagination #Empty
I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.
-- Jack Williamson

#Police #Brutal #Strict
I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized.
-- Jack Williamson

#Men #Important #Details
That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,.
-- Jack Williamson

#Country #Adventure #Night
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.
-- Jack Williamson

#Discovery #Fiction #Assumption
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.
-- Jack Williamson

#Mean #Past #Ideas

Anyone who meets you and doesn't want to get to know you and be part of your life is stupid. I saw it when I was just a kid." "No. You thought I was a vampire and you wanted to be my friend so I wouldn't eat you." "Well, that too. But I found out soon enough you weren't a blood sucker and I still licked you.
I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
Memory is what makes us young or old.
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Jack Williamson famous quotes

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