The Seeds of Time Quotes

“You can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll come out. Now what you've got to understand is that the wheel's not evil. Never mind what the scared men all tell you. no discovery is good or evil until men make it that way." -The Wheel, John Wtndham”
― John Wyndham, The Seeds of Time

“In the end, defeat, and the cold, must come. First to the system, then the galaxy, then the universe, and the rest will be silence. Not to admit that is a fools vanity.' She paused. ' Yet one grows flowers because they are lovely - not because one wishes them to live forever.”
― John Wyndham, The Seeds of Time

“What we do with the product of genius is first of all ram it down to the lowest common denominator and then multiply it by the vulgarest possible fraction. -from "Pawley's Peepholes”
― John Wyndham, The Seeds of Time

“Something entirely unexpected happened to Bert. Yesterday he had seen her as a child grown up, today it was different. There was a pain in his chest and a hammering, the skin on his temples felt oddly tight, his hand trembled so that he almost dropped the bar he was holding. He leaned back against the wheel, staring at her but unable to speak. A long time seemed to pass before he could say anything, and the words sounded clumsy in his own ears. What”
― John Wyndham, The Seeds of Time: Classic Science Fiction

“Just that mere existence is not enough. One exists by barter. One lives by giving – and taking.”
― John Wyndham, The Seeds of Time: Classic Science Fiction

“For today is part of yesterday. And yesterday and today are parts of being alive. And being alive is not just an affair of the days going clonk-clonk-clonk like the pendulum of a grandfather clock: being alive is something continuous, that does not repeat; something that one should be aware of all the time, sleeping and waking...”
― John Wyndham, The Seeds of Time

“It never seems to have occured to you that in Nature life is growth, and preservation is an accident. ...
What is preserved in the rocks or in ice is only the image of life, but you were always regarding local taboos as eternal verities, and attempting to preserve them.”
― John Wyndham, The Seeds of Time

“asked. ‘Just that mere existence is not enough. One exists by barter. One lives by giving – and taking.’ ‘I”
― John Wyndham, The Seeds of Time: Classic Science Fiction