Poul Anderson Men Quotations

A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

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

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.