# Quote — Murray Leinster, The Wailing Asteroid

> 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.

- Author: [Murray Leinster](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster.md)
- Book: [The Wailing Asteroid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster/the-wailing-asteroid.md)
- Page: 12
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## More from this book

> 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 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster/the-wailing-asteroid/there-was-bitter.md)

> 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 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster/the-wailing-asteroid/as-a-young.md)

> “It isn’t reasonable!” insisted Holmes. “It doesn’t make sense!”
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> “The question,” observed Burke, “isn’t whether it makes sense, but whether it’s fact.”

p. 96 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster/the-wailing-asteroid/it-isnt-reasonable.md)