"You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries."

-- Lise Meitner

#War Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Use Quotes

“In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.”
“Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution?”
“My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.”
“No one did what I did last season and for this I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the best World Player.”
“Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.”
“If we believe in them, love them and trust them, they see who they are through our eyes.”
“Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical literature. But theology, the study of gods, the study of what gods do, presupposes that gods exist. The only kind of theology that I take account of are those theological arguments that actually argue for the existence of God.”
“The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.7281, Delphi Classics

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