George Zebrowski > Quotes

“Mathematics has always shown a curious ability to be applicable to nature, and this may express a deep link between our minds and nature. We are the Universe speaking out, a part of nature. So it is not so surprising that our systems of logic and mathematics sing in tune with nature.”
― George Zebrowski

“All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups.”
― George Zebrowski, Brute Orbits

“The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does so by asking basic questions in the artful, liberating way that is unique to this form of writing. Echoes of it are found in other forms of fiction - in the novel of ideas, in the historical novel, in the writings of the great philosophers and scientists; but the best SF does this all more searchingly, by taking what is in most people only a moment of wonder and rebellion against the arbitrariness of existence and making of it an art enriched by knowledge and possibility, expressing our deepest human longing to penetrate into the dark heart of the unknown.”
― George Zebrowski, Synergy: New Science Fiction, Volume 1

“A man is best known, understood, measured, even valued, not by his settled conclusions, but by the dilemmas he keeps. They are the best markers of fleeting truth on the perverse road of time.”
― George Zebrowski, Brute Orbits

“How long must a man lie dead,” he recited, puzzled by the words that came out of him. “Forever is too long. There must be mercy somewhere.”
― George Zebrowski, Black Pockets and Other Dark Thoughts

“If we are to die, it will be from internal failures, from the ungovernable dark places of the mind – the scaffolding left over from evolution’s bloody building program.”
― George Zebrowski, Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia