Second Stage Lensmen Quotes

“Working hypotheses, young man, must be based upon accurately determined facts; not upon mere guesses, superstitions, or figments of personal prejudices.”
― E.E. "Doc" Smith, Second Stage Lensmen

“it has been argued that sexual equality is the most important criterion of that which we know as Civilization.”
― E.E. "Doc" Smith, Second Stage Lensmen

“How could he explain beauty, or music, or art, to this . . . this matriarchal savage? How explain cerise to a man born blind? And above all, who had ever heard of having to explain to a woman—to any woman, anywhere in the whole macrocosmic universe—that she in particular was beautiful?”
― E.E. "Doc" Smith, Second Stage Lensmen