Astounding Science Fiction, February 1943 Quotes

“Ruthlessly a child can destroy the pretenses of an adult. Iconoclasm is their prerogative.”
― C.L. Moore, Astounding Science Fiction, February 1943

“From the standpoint of logic, a child is rather horribly perfect. A baby may be even more perfect, but so alien to an adult that only superficial standards of comparison apply. The thought processes of an infant are completely unimaginable. But babies think, even before birth. In the womb they move and sleep, not entirely through instinct. We are conditioned to react rather peculiarly to the idea that a nearly-viable embryo may think. We are surprised, shocked into laughter, and repelled. Nothing human is alien.

But a baby is not human. An embryo is far less human.”
― C.L. Moore, Astounding Science Fiction, February 1943

“آزمایش های پیچیده هرگز در برابر چشمان افراد بالغ انجام نمی شدند.”
― Lewis Padgett, Astounding Science Fiction, February 1943