Enchantress of Numbers Quotes

“loving one’s children does not guarantee that one will never fail them,”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Enchantress of Numbers

“The world is never ready for any innovation,” he grumbled. “The vast majority of people stubbornly cling to the past until people possessing foresight and a sense of adventure break a trail and bring them into the future.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Enchantress of Numbers

“There comes a time in every young woman’s life when she must learn to trust the evidence of her own senses, of her own experiences, if it does not confirm what she has heard from others.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Enchantress of Numbers

“One of the great advantages that we may derive from machinery is the check that it affords against the inattention, the idleness, or the dishonesty of human agents.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Enchantress of Numbers

“The moment a gentleman perfects an invention and petitions the government for aid, he ceases to be an innocent citizen and becomes a culprit, a man to be shirked, browbeaten, and sneered at. I have never heard of any mechanician, inventor, or natural scientist who failed to find the government all but inaccessible, and whom the government did not discourage and treat badly.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Enchantress of Numbers

“But are we not both made for this very thing? If you pluck an apple from a tree, is the tree ruined? If you use a new pen, is it ruined, or is it finally fulfilling the purpose for which it was created?”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Enchantress of Numbers

“Understanding that all sciences are essentially one rather than marking them off into distinct realms that share borders but no territory will, I think, increase our comprehension of them all in ways that we cannot yet imagine.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Enchantress of Numbers

“I understood that at eight years of age, but I had forgotten it by eighteen.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Enchantress of Numbers

“Smiles Form the Channel of a Future Tear”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Enchantress of Numbers

“Even the best of children can be little tyrants, believing themselves absolutely entitled to every bit of the love and servitude bestowed upon them by the adults entrusted with their care,”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Enchantress of Numbers