# Quote — John Wyndham, Stowaway to Mars

> "One hears of the Industrial Revolution as though it were a mere phase, finished and done with. It is not, and it shows no sign of ever being completed."

- Author: [John Wyndham](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham.md)
- Book: [Stowaway to Mars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/stowaway-to-mars.md)
- Page: 105
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Wyndham#Stowaway_to_Mars_(originally_Planet_Plane_/_The_Space_Machine)_(1935)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/stowaway-to-mars/one-hears-of-the

## More from this book

> The world has so multiplied the causes of fear that no one is left entirely unafraid.

p. 12 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/stowaway-to-mars/the-world-has.md)

> "There are, of course, risks. In fact, there are three distinct kinds of risk: the known ones which we can and shall prepare against; the known ones which we must trust to luck to avoid; and the entirely unknown."

p. 26 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/stowaway-to-mars/there-are-of-course.md)

> "I'm afraid I'm not very good at understanding things like that."
>
> "You say that, but what you really mean is: 'I don't want to understand things like that.' "
>
> "It's true," she admitted.

p. 167 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/stowaway-to-mars/im-afraid-im-not.md)