# Total Eclipse

- Author: [John Brunner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner.md)
- Quotes: 4
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/total-eclipse

## Quotes

> I simply can’t make myself believe that if they’d been handicapped by belief in capricious supernatural beings they’d have achieved what they did.

p. 116 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/total-eclipse/i-simply-cant.md)

> We’ve been amazingly lucky, which is another way of saying we’ve kept our eyes and minds open and responded when something turned up.

p. 125 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/total-eclipse/weve-been-amazingly.md)

> How can a man be so brilliant and so obtuse?

p. 69 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/total-eclipse/how-can-a-man.md)

> There’s an old saying: The genius sees what happens, but the plodder sees what he expects to happen.

p. 88 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/total-eclipse/theres-an-old.md)