Quotes by David Brin

About David Brin:

Glen David Brin is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards. His Campbell Award winning novel The Postman was adapted as a feature film and starred Kevin Costner in 1997. Brin's nonfiction book The Transparent Society won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association and the McGannon Communication Award.
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Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

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Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

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Shayna thinking about Jensen: " ....From my first glance I knew he was atleast three or four inches taller than me and I could tell his lightweight sweater hid a well muscled chest and arms, but lean, not meaty. I was aware of an excess of saliva in ...

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Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

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The species greatest harvest ― words.

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Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.

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Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.

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Generalization is a natural human mental process, and many generalizations are true—in average. What often does promote evil behavior is the lazy, nasty habit of believing that generalizations have anything at all to do with individuals.

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It was a strange trek — the sullen leading the apathetic, followed by the confused, all tailed by the inveterately amused.

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Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

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Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

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The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture – although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell this ship. Your talents were underrated.

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Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

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The village is coming back, like it or not.

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The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

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But there is one more reason to protect other species. One seldom if ever mentioned. Perhaps we are the first to talk and think and build and aspire, but we may not be the last. Others may follow us in this adventure. Some day we may be judged by jus...

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There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

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...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and ...

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

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Author Bio

  • NameDavid Brin
  • Descriptionnovelist, short story writer
  • BornOctober 6, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAstronomer; Astrophysicist; Author; Novelist
  • WorksStartide Rising; The Postman; Earth
  • AwardsNebula Award