Wouldn’t it be fine if we could prove things with our mind,… - Ray Bradbury

" "
Wouldn’t it be fine if we could prove things with our mind, and know for certain that things are always in their place. I’d like to know what a place is like when I’m not there. I’d like to be sure.

Ray Bradbury

The Illustrated Man · August 1, 2002 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

English

Collect this quote

About Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (22 August 1920 – 5 June 2012) was an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Pen Names: William Elliot

Birth Name: Raymond Douglas Bradbury

Native Name: Ray Douglas Bradbury

Alternative Names: Elliott, William • William Elliott

All quotes from Ray Bradbury Similar Quotes by other Originators

Shorter versions of this quote

I'd like to know what a place is like when I'm not there. I'd like to be sure.

Originators like Ray Bradbury:

Stephen King Neil Gaiman Harlan Ellison Ernest Hemingway Kurt Vonnegut

Additional quotes by Ray Bradbury

"Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
He laughed. "That's against the law!"
"Oh. Of course."

Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

Wouldn’t it be fine if we could prove things with our mind, and know for certain that things are always in their place. I’d like to know what a place… - Ray Bradbury

About Ray Bradbury

Also Known As

Shorter versions of this quote

Additional quotes by Ray Bradbury