“If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules”

“. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.”

“The mysterious Enoch Root meets 8-year-old Benjamin Franklin, Boston, 1713: "Do I look like a schoolmaster to you?" "No, but you talk like one." "You know something of schoolmasters, do you?""Yes, ...”

“You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the other?""The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space?”

“The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understanding of the world.""And yet with a bigger library we could come ever so much closer.”

“This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.”

“None of us can choose where we shall love...”

“There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.”

“Whales feel cohesion, a sense of community, of loyalty. The distress call of a lone whale is enough to prompt its entire pod to rush to its side- a gesture that lands them nose to nose in the same ...”

“Theres only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself.”

“It was truebut it was harsh. And it feels like maybe a harsh truth can be as hurtful as a lie.”

“Sometimes, even pretty simple situations can become tough, when the thing you love the most and the thing you have to sacrifice is the same.”

“Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.”