Charles Sheffield: Quotes about thinking

Charles Sheffield was British scientist, American science fiction writer. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.
Charles Sheffield: 82 quotes0 likes

“If you wanted to get yourself killed, there was no better way than to think you knew all the tricks. It took experience to make you realize that the universe could always pull another one out of the bag and throw it at you.”

Charles Sheffield book Resurgence

Source: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 8, “Theories, Theories, Theories” (p. 84)

“Theories were a dime a dozen. The partition that separated science and wishful thinking was evidence: observations and firm facts.”

Charles Sheffield book Convergence

Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 6 (p. 317)

“But humans had to learn to ignore appearance. No two beings who shared common thinking processes and common goals should be truly alien to each other.”

Charles Sheffield book Summertide

Source: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 5, “Summertide Minus Thirty” (p. 61)

“And now I think about it, I never really wanted to live forever. I just want to live well.”

Charles Sheffield book Between the Strokes of Night

Source: Between the Strokes of Night (1985), Chapter 29 (p. 342)

“See, everybody looks at the world from his own point of view. I call it the ground state of the resting mind. And your brain does the same thing, left alone it returns to and thinks about what it’s really interested in.”

Charles Sheffield book Proteus In The Underworld

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 17 (p. 227)