“Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.”
― Daedalus
― Daedalus
“We can fortell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be.”
― Daedalus
― Daedalus
“There is not a single effect in Nature, not even the least that exists, such that the most ingenious theorists can ever arrive at a complete understanding of it. This vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never understanding anything. For anyone who had experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is attained, would recognise that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.”
― Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
― Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
“We had our arms round each other. It was like holding in my hand some rare, exhausted, nearly doomed bird which I had miraculously happened to find.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
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