Jeremy

“Let him talk," said Dupin, who had not thought it necessary to reply. "Let him discourse; it will ease his conscience, I a satisfied with having defeated him in his own castle.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales

“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities---that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

“Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.”
― Jed Rubenfeld, The Interpretation of Murder