John Brunner - God Quotes

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I marvel'd how Man, by his GOD-sent wit,
Thus tam'd the salamander Element
And loos'd the Metal in the mountain pent
To make us Saws, and Shears, and useful Plows,
Swords for our hands, and Helmets for our brows,
The surgeon's Scalpel, vehicle of Health,
And all our humble Tools for gaining wealth...
De Arte Munificente, Seventeenth century

John Brunner

I can't see heaven but I credit hell —
I live in New York so I know it well.
When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome
God gave it up and He went home.

John Brunner

What in God's name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

John Brunner

He had once, for example, put down a spokesman for the pesticide industry with a remark that people still quoted at parties: And I presume on the eighth day God called you and said, 'I changed my mind about insects!'

John Brunner

I don't believe in God, said the captain. I wouldn't care to believe in anyone who could make such a stinking lousy species as the one you belong to.

John Brunner