8 Quotes by James Cambias

I prefer to be proved wrong than to live in error.

It is very difficult to predict what other humans will do, and considerably more difficult to anticipate the behaviour of aliens.

If I am to write my memoirs someday I would like to have good material to work with.

Four limbs good, six limbs bad.

Where the explorers go, conquerors and exploiters always follow.

Greatest stuff in the world. Superman’s duct tape.

I fear we must use bad science to accomplish good politics.

...people do not want to hear that aliens are just like us. They want wise angels and noble savages.