Jeremy

“There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

“For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.”
― Jed Rubenfeld, The Interpretation of Murder

“On certain social occasions, otherwise dignified and serious men will begin behaving unconsciously like players on a stage, performing as they talk, acting as they gesticulate. The cause is invariably a woman.”
― Jed Rubenfeld, The Interpretation of Murder

“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