Murray Leinster

Quotes

• “My specialty is the mechanics of research. But I test my theories about how to make discoveries by using them to make discoveries.”
• ““I’ve got an impossible job on my hands,” he told them, “and if I succeed at it, there’s an inconceivable one to follow.””
• “My purpose is not to make profits, but to keep people from being killed. Quaint, eh? But I’m one of the people I don’t want killed.”
• “Logics don’t work good on women. Only on things that make sense.”
• “Her eyes upon him were soft. Civilized people act upon intellectualized motives. They decide what is wise, and sometimes do it. But when they are swayed by purest primitive instincts they are usually happier. Hana was responding to one of the most ancient of all known human impulses—admiration of a proved warrior.”
• “And, just as she had responded to primitive prowess, so Ron reacted to feminine admiration by an enormously increased urge to accomplish.”

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