Alan Dean Foster Quotes

Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

The real name for 'science' is magic.

BEFORE I DISCOVERED THE miracles of science, magic ruled the world.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

There's tons of magic in the world, and it's all science.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.

It's a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic.

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

Science is not wisdom.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

Miracles and magic pervade the things that I've written, but yet there are no miracles and there is no magic.

You don't get into magic. Magic gets into you.

Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.

...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.