# Poul Anderson

- Quotes: 132
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson

## Books

- [After Doomsday](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/after-doomsday.md) — 1 quote
- [Brain Wave](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/brain-wave.md) — 7 quotes
- [Ensign Flandry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/ensign-flandry.md) — 1 quote
- [Harvest of Stars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/harvest-of-stars.md) — 4 quotes
- [Tau Zero](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/tau-zero.md) — 2 quotes
- [The Boat of a Million Years](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-boat-of-a-million-years.md) — 37 quotes
- [The Broken Sword](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-broken-sword.md) — 11 quotes
- [The Corridors of Time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-corridors-of-time.md) — 4 quotes
- [The Enemy Stars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-enemy-stars.md) — 15 quotes
- [The High Crusade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-high-crusade.md) — 1 quote
- [The Long Way Home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-long-way-home.md) — 7 quotes
- [The People of the Wind](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-people-of-the-wind.md) — 6 quotes
- [The Star Fox](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-star-fox.md) — 7 quotes
- [There Will Be Time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/there-will-be-time.md) — 22 quotes
- [Vault of the Ages](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/vault-of-the-ages.md) — 7 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> It would annoy me less that we’re heading into a new puritanical era if the puritanism concerned itself about things that matter.

p. 330

> Are you happy?
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> Your question is meaningless. I am occupied. I participate in operations, I am one with the accomplishments.

p. 426

> Light fills the air, wind is aglow, drink of it, breathe of it, make leafing.
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> Rainfall sows itself, it grows down through soil to the secret places where stones abide; it brings the strength of them up rootward.
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> Lie still, molder away, then be again grass.

> I have learned much in two thousand years, but nothing about any gods, except that they too, arise, change, age, and die. Whatever there is beyond the universe, if anything, I doubt it concerns itself with us.

p. 140

> I also know you cannot pick and choose. Change is a medicine bundle. You must refuse it altogether, or take the whole thing.

p. 215

> Think. You have had your dealings with our bureaucracy. It is impossible not to, especially if one is a foreigner. Believe me, when we set our minds to it we can tangle, obstruct, and bring to a dead halt a herd of stampeding elephants.

p. 291

> “Well, I’ll try to sketch it out for you, but I’ll have to repeat stuff I’ve told you before.”
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> “That’s all right. I’m a simon-pure layman. My basic thought habits were formed early in the Iron Age. Where it comes to science, I can use plenty of repetition.”

p. 331

> Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

> I’ve seen so many gods come and go, what’s one more?

p. 254

> Absolute proof of absolute knowledge is impossible.

p. 426

> “Evolution is cut-and-try. If I may anthropomorphize,” he added. “Often it’s hard not to.”

p. 333

> “We do need something to lift us out of ourselves. It’s wrong to carry our pettinesses along to the stars.”
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> “We will, though,” he said. “We can’t help it. How do you escape being what you are?”

p. 438