Raymond Abrashkin > Quotes

“Well, we can’t send Dr. Tresselt back by himself,” said Dr. Tresselt, with a grin. “I might find something interesting along the way, and get side-tracked, and forget where I was supposed to be going.”
― Raymond Abrashkin, Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave

“The Automatic House was designed by Larry Perron, of Pierre Lutz Associates, Westport, Connecticut.”
― Raymond Abrashkin, Danny Dunn and the Automatic House

“Anemone Cave, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine”
― Raymond Abrashkin, Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave

“Well, we can’t send Dr. Tresselt back by himself,” said Dr. Tresselt, with a grin. “I might find something interesting along the way, and”
― Raymond Abrashkin, Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave

“Danny knew far more about science than was taught in his grade in school, and could do long division in his head and use a slide rule as easily as he could throw a baseball,”
― Raymond Abrashkin, Danny Dunn and the Automatic House

“and Joe shook hands with him gravely. “It scares me,” Irene said, “but it’s so exciting, too. It’s like one of those stories in which people can do magical things, like fly, or fight dragons, or make themselves invisible.” Professor Bullfinch took her gently by the shoulders and turned her to face the wall opposite the windows. Next to the blackboard there was a piece of paper with something lettered on it, set in a gold frame. “Can you read that?” he said. Irene read aloud: The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. —Albert Einstein”
― Raymond Abrashkin, Danny Dunn, Time Traveler