Quotes
Authors
Helen Oyeyemi

"I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we can live sanely with it, since some forms of knowledge are too dark, or too complex, to be plainly spoken. And so we have these weird (and also sometimes entertaining and surprising and heartening) tales that belong to all of us."

Source : "'Something Just Beyond Words'". Interview with Molly McArdle, logger.believermag.com. April 25, 2014.

Helen Oyeyemi

#Dark Quotes #Way Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.”

Source : Elizabeth Ferrars (2014). “Experiment with Death”, p.26, Hachette UK
“I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.”
“My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.”
“Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.”

Source : "Mourinho in his own words" by Chris Charles, news.bbc.co.uk. September 20, 2007.
“And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.”
“Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biologyâ€™s last twenty years has inflamed passions.' He spoke of the 'lack of total agreement even within the warring camps,' and added, 'things really are in an uproar these days .Â .Â . Sometimes it seems as though there are as many variations on each [evolutionary] theme as there are individual biologists.'”
“I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.”
“When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can answer. That is, it is often the case that the operations of a science are not a consequence of the problematic of that science, but that the problematic is induced by the available means.”

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