Unseemly Science Quotes

“For good or ill, knowledge has ever threatened the settled order. A keg of gunpowder may make matchwood of a sturdy house. But a book can set the world on fire.”
― Rod Duncan, Unseemly Science

“It was to dispel the smog of superstition and prejudice that we pulled the churches down. Now that work is done, let us build libraries in their stead.”
― Rod Duncan, Unseemly Science

“It is not in the entrails of doves that the fall of empires can be read, but in the breeding of secrets and the multiplication of lies.”
― Rod Duncan, Unseemly Science

“Revolution was never sparked by political philosophy. It has ever been the price of bread that shakes the pillars of the world. Yet they lock up the thinkers and leave the bakers free.”
― Rod Duncan, Unseemly Science

“We use our eyes to see the world. But, as every conjurer knows, it is the mind that makes meaning.”
― Rod Duncan, Unseemly Science

“her. “What’ll you do?” I asked, meaning”
― Rod Duncan, Unseemly Science

“constables, I would be able to watch as he led them”
― Rod Duncan, Unseemly Science