He had seen too much of the ...

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man\'s ability to understand it.
He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
 Poul Anderson

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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

Quotes from the same author

It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.
 Poul Anderson
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
 Poul Anderson
Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action.
 Poul Anderson
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.
 Poul Anderson