Poul Anderson on Philosophy
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Poul Anderson, catalogued under Philosophy, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Poul Anderson, entry #211650: "Something as biologically fundamental as death ought to be in the very fabric of evolution virtually from the beginning."
Attributed to Poul Anderson, entry #95369: "So why was a civilian going armed? It bespoke a degree of lawlessness that fitted ill with a technological society."
8 Quotes by Poul Anderson on Philosophy
"Something as biologically fundamental as death ought to be in the very fabric of evolution virtually from the beginning."
"So why was a civilian going armed? It bespoke a degree of lawlessness that fitted ill with a technological society."
"All those agonizing philosophical-theological conundrums amount to "Ask a silly question, get a silly answer."
"I cannot believe you harbor any illusions about the barbarians being nature’s noblemen. I soon lost mine. They were every bit as ruthless. They were simply less efficient."
"They were not plagued that night, which Hugi said was without doubt because something worse was being prepared. Holger was inclined to share the dwarf’s pessimism."
"One can surrender one’s rational will to beliefs or habits as easily as to individuals, for essentially the same reasons, and with essentially the same results. Ideas have a mystery and power of their own."
"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."
"What, after all, what is the most logical way for superman to evolve? Not in one fantastic mutation of unknown thousands of genes all working to produce the same results: the very formulation was an insult to the laws of probability. No, homo superior should have evolved from homo sapiens in the same way that other species had evolved from a parent stock—by isolation of a few not very different mutations, selection and intensification of the new traits, new mutations gradually appearing and being lost if they were unfavorable, being incorporated if they gave some advantage."