“Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us ...”

“Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.”

“No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.”

“Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.”

“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”

“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.”