“If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.”

“You can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll come out. Now what you've got to understand is that the wheel's not evil. Never mind what the scared men all tell you. no discovery is good or evil until men make it that way." -The Wheel, John Wtndham”

“If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.”

“The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.”

“There must, I think, be a great many people who go around just longing to be baffled...”

“It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”

“You don't seriously suggest that thet're talking when they make that rattling noise.”