The Wailing Asteroid

Quotes

1. There was bitter resistance to the idea. It was demanded that Burke justify his views in a more reasonable way than by mere demonstration that they worked.

   p. 65

2. 

   As a young man he was considered promising. If he had been interested in such matters, he might have had a moderately successful career in politics, as politics was practiced in his nation. But he liked things. Real things.

   p. 84

3. 

   “It isn’t reasonable!” insisted Holmes. “It doesn’t make sense!”

   “The question,” observed Burke, “isn’t whether it makes sense, but whether it’s fact.”

   p. 96

4. 

   They raise the question of whether I’ve been crazy, and am suddenly sane, or whether I’ve been sane up to now, and have suddenly gone crazy.

   p. 12

5. 

   For once, no eminent figure assumed the undignified pose involved in standing on one’s dignity.

   p. 118

6. 

   Eminent men were called on to take command and arrange suitable measures. They immediately acted as eminent men so often do; they took action to retain their eminence. Their first instinct was caution. When a man is important enough, it does not matter if he never does anything. It is only required of him that he do nothing wrong. Eminent figures all over the world prepared to do nothing wrong. They were not so concerned to do anything right.

   p. 32

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