By: Frederik Pohl

“A dead world, and cold, this satellite bleak…”

By: Laurence Binyon

“Dædal Numbers, sole and same,/Invisible skeleton frame”

By: D.H. Lawrence

“The heart of man, in so far as it is budding, is budding warless…”

By: Michael Roberts

“I, maybe, precisely seize /
The elusive photon’s properties”

By: Stephen Vincent Benét

“That was the year the termites came to New York.”

By: C.S. Lewis

“Refrain? From what? All’s good enough.”

By: Max Beerbohm

“I never said they were ‘automata’
And ‘jackaclocks’…”

By: Archibald MacLeish

LIFE in the Perpendicular Decanter

By: Guillaume Apollinaire

“We said good-bye to an entire epoch”

By: William Butler Yeats

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

By: Charles M. Doughty

“Cliff-brow of perfide Albion! so alight.”

By: Thomas Thornely

Thy last dread secret, Nature! keep…

By: Archibald MacLeish

Let them be silent in their particles.

By: Thomas Hardy

“Darwin’s theories were a snare”

By: Vachel Lindsay

Lord, give us Darwin’s eyes!