Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 10, A Personal Conclusion, p. 188.
Breaking Through Power (2016)
“Ultimately, it was easier to change the subject than think the unthinkable.”
Source: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 13, “Jokers” (p. 280)
“It might be easier
To fail with land in sight,
Than gain my blue peninsula
To perish of delight.”
Life, p. 69
Collected Poems (1993)
Source: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
“It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.”
The Human Condition (1958).
“To follow foolish precedents, and wink with both eyes, is easier than to think.”
Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 3, “Pseudoscience” (p. 67; quoting William Cowper)
“I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.”
Source: The Price of Salt
