Not even knowledge takes all the strangeness from the world
Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent.
“It was necessary to be afraid in order to have courage.”
“Luke diagnosed himself to be in love, and sought no cure for the disease.”
“Besides(..), it's a poor woman whose ambition is only to be loved.”
“The fear of the crowd then came to Will, with the taste of a copper penny placed on his tongue; and it was not the fear that they were under divine judgement, but that they were not, and could neve...”
“Must we make battlegrounds out of our children?”
“what use was it to observe the human species and try to understand it? Their rules were fathomless and no mire fixed than the wind”
“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myse...”
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”
“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”
“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”