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“Tu marcheras, j'irai dans l'ombre à ton côté : je serai ton esprit, tu seras ma beauté.”
― Cyrano de Bergerac
― Cyrano de Bergerac
“I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.”
― Much Ado About Nothing
― Much Ado About Nothing
“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction—so we are told.”
― A Room Of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
― A Room Of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
“Man’s conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man’s side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger. In every victory, besides being the general who triumphs, he is also the prisoner who follows the triumphal car.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
“The fact that the scientist has succeeded where the magician failed has put such a wide contrast between them in popular thought that the real story of the birth of Science is misunderstood. You will even find people who write about the sixteenth century as if Magic were a medieval survival and Science the new thing that came in to sweep it away. Those who have studied the period know better. There was very little magic in the Middle Ages: the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are the high noon of magic. The serious magical endeavour and the serious scientific endeavour are twins: one was sickly and died, the other strong and throve. But they were twins. They were born of the same impulse.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
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