Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Michael Swanwick
Michael Swanwick Quotes
2 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
A well built theory has three merits: (i) it has an aesthetic appeal, (ii) it is comparatively easy to understand, and (iii), if its postulates are clearly stated, it may be taken out of its original physical context and applied in another.
Michael Swanwick
Source
Report...
Once the data is in, the theory has to follow along meekly.
Michael Swanwick
Quote of the day
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
Günter Grass
Michael Swanwick
Creative Commons
Born:
November 18, 1950
(age 75)
Bio:
Michael Swanwick is an American science fiction author. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began publishing in the early 1980s.
Known for:
The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
Stations of the Tide (1990)
Bones of the Earth (2002)
The Dragons of Babel (2008)
Dancing with Bears (2011)
Michael Swanwick on Wikipedia
Suggest an edit or a new quote
American Author Quotes
Author Quotes
20th-century Author Quotes
Related Authors
William Gibson
American Novelist
Connie Willis
American Novelist
Gene Wolfe
American Novelist
Bruce Sterling
American Novelist
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes