“A union of literary and scientific culturesthere was not the dissociation of sensibility that was so soon to come... Davy himself was writing (and sometimes publishing) a good deal of poetry at the...”

“...read 1984 when it came out in 1949, and found its account of the memory hole peculiarly evocative and frightening, for it accorded with my own doubts about my memory. I think that reading this l...”

“I was on the shy side at school (one school report called me diffident) and Braefield had added a special timidity, but when I had a natural wonder... I lost all my diffidence, and freely approache...”

“[photography]... wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to manipulate them in my own way.”

“My mother showed me that when tin or zinc was bent it uttered a special cry. Its due to deformation of the crystal structure, she said, forgetting that I was five, and could not understand her - an...”

“I liked numbers because they were solid, invariant; they stood unmoved in a chaotic world. There was in numbers and their relation something absolute, certain, not to be questioned, beyond doubt.”

“No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? ”

“Pussy is everywhere. Dick is everywhere. Chemistry isn't.”

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“Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place -- just busy and preoccupied. Personall...”

“That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.”

“Even after three hundred maps have been handed out, Ama and I still melt the moment people switch from being suspicious that we want to sell them something--"Hey? What do you want? Money? Direction...”

“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.”