Today is National Science Fiction Day.
Here are 10 quotes from John Wyndham (1903–1969), author of Day of the Triffids.
Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.
The essential quality of life is living, the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.
Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?
Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
What is a planet but an island in space?
Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.
It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation.
You know, one of the most shocking things about it is to realize how easily we have lost a world that seemed so safe and certain.
Once an idea has been planted no one can tell when and where it will stop growing.
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