John W. Campbell quotes - page 6

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. (John W. Campbell)
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. View quote
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Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. View quote
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. View quote
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. View quote
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U 235 has - I'm stating fact, not theory - been separated in quantity easily sufficient for preliminary atomic power research, and the like. They got it out of regular uranium ores by new atomic isotope separation methods; they have quantities measured in pounds... View quote
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... L. Ron Hubbard will win the Nobel peace prize for [Dianetics]. Wouldn't the man who wiped out war win the Nobel peace prize? View quote
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If you can't think of a good blurb for a story, bounce it. View quote
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I've three times sent "Cold Equations" back to Godwin, before I got the version I wanted. In the first two re-writes, Godwin kept coming up with ingenious ways to save the girl! View quote
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Of course, I never wrote the "important" story, the sequel about the first amplified human. Once I tried something similar. John Campbell's letter of rejection began: "Sorry - you can't write this story. Neither can anyone else." View quote
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Suppose you meet a man who asks you what your field of endeavor is and you tell him that you are the world's greatest living vertebrate paleontologist, which is, of course, what you are. And suppose that, on hearing this, the man you meet fixes you with a glittering eye and proceeds to lecture you for five hours on vertebrate paleontology, getting all his facts wrong, yet somehow leaving you unable to argue them. You will then have met [John W.] Campbell. (John W. Campbell)