James L. Cambias Quotes & Sayings

#1. Your advanced alien science is no match for our spunky Earthling pop culture.

#2. Where the explorers go, conquerors and exploiters always follow.

#3. I fear we must use bad science to accomplish good politics.

#4. This is more important than food. This is science!

#5. Four limbs good, six limbs bad.

#6. What is the old American saying? Pretend it is chicken?

#7. I prefer to be proved wrong than to live in error.

#8. Damn you, Captain Black!" she yelled into the twilight. "This isn't over yet! From hell's heart, I stab at thee!

#9. Greatest stuff in the world. Superman's duct tape.

#10. ...people do not want to hear that aliens are just like us. They want wise angels and noble savages.

#11. If I am to write my memoirs someday I would like to have good material to work with.

#12. It is very difficult to predict what other humans will do, and considerably more difficult to anticipate the behaviour of aliens.

#13. While war for love is inspiring in legends and epic poems, we must be governed by cynical pragmatism.

James L. Cambias Quotes