A Darkling Sea Quotes

“Greatest stuff in the world. Superman’s duct tape.”
― James Cambias, A Darkling Sea

“This is more important than food. This is science!”
― James L. Cambias, A Darkling Sea

“I prefer to be proved wrong than to live in error.”
― James Cambias, A Darkling Sea

“I fear we must use bad science to accomplish good politics.”
― James Cambias, A Darkling Sea

“Where the explorers go, conquerors and exploiters always follow.”
― James Cambias, A Darkling Sea

“Four limbs good, six limbs bad.”
― James Cambias, A Darkling Sea

“While war for love is inspiring in legends and epic poems, we must be governed by cynical pragmatism.”
― James Cambias, A Darkling Sea

“...people do not want to hear that aliens are just like us. They want wise angels and noble savages.”
― James Cambias, A Darkling Sea

“serious matters demanded the formality of pointless security.”
― James L. Cambias, A Darkling Sea

“Your advanced alien science is no match for our spunky Earthling pop culture.”
― James Cambias, A Darkling Sea

“What is the old American saying? Pretend it is chicken?”
― James Cambias, A Darkling Sea

“It is very difficult to predict what other humans will do, and considerably more difficult to anticipate the behaviour of aliens.”
― James Cambias, A Darkling Sea

“If I am to write my memoirs someday I would like to have good material to work with.”
― James Cambias, A Darkling Sea

“For probably the ten-thousandth time Tizhos cursed her people. They had ventured forth from a ruined planet, rediscovered how to enter Otherspace and explore the Universe, made contact with Terrans and others – and then decided they preferred to spend all their time blowing glass and planting gardens in little woodland villages.”
― James Cambias, A Darkling Sea