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Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos;

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Chris’s Quotes

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos;”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

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“Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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“The various forms of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people to be equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful. —EDWARD GIBBON, DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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“Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

tags: gratitude, idolatry, technology

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“That day being Christmas Day, Ned Land seemed to regret sorely the non-celebration of "Christmas," the family fete of which Protestants are so fond.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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