Childhood's End Quotes

"You will find men like [Wainwright] in all the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overth...

[Stormgren] had severed mankind for forty years, and its masters for five, and few men could look back upon a life that had seen so many of its ambitions achieved. Perhaps that was the trouble: in...

Now it had dawned at last; the gleaming, silent shapes hanging over every land were the symbol of a science man could not hope to match for centuries. (2.39)

He felt no regrets as the work of a lifetime was swept away. He had labored to take man to the stars, and now the stars—aloof, indifferent stars—had come to him. (1.13)

"Believe me, it gives us no pleasure to destroy men's faiths, but all the world's religions cannot be right, and they know it. Sooner or later man has to learn the truth: but that time is not yet."...

Though there were few great cities on Earth where men could not see one of the silver ships glittering against the zenith, after a little while they were taken as much for granted as the Sun, Moon,...

"Europe was a cultural and geographic entity. The world is not—that is the difference.""To the Overlords," replied Stormgren sarcastically, "the Earth probably is a great deal smaller than Europe...

He spoke in English so perfect that the controversy it began was to rage across the Atlantic for a generation. But the context of the speech was more staggering even than its delivery. (2.41)

He did not believe that there was any biological form, however strange, which he could not accept in time and, perhaps, even find beautiful. The mind, not the body, was all that mattered. (3.9)