“Indeed, I'd met a number of wives who were clearly doing the lion's sh...” — T. Kingfisher Quote

“Indeed, I'd met a number of wives who were clearly doing the lion's share of the research, no matter whose name appeared on the frontispiece.”

“Our own flaws infuriate us in other people.”

“It was all hurt pride, of course. He knew that. If you're going to be all noble and self-sacrificing and immolate a chance at happiness on the altar of your own personal unworthiness, you hate to think that the sacrifice wasn't actually worth anything.”

“Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.”

“Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.”

“No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experiened”

“The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition.”

“By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.”

“Call it "a wonder" or "a mystery" and you have an excuse to never try understanding it - an excuse to not take responsibility for it. People knew about love no more than they knew about Science, but at least most did not jump into Science headstrong, with the hope that they would figure it out as they went, or that some "mysterious" inborn trait would take care of it.”