In England one so rarely does the obvious thing. It is easier to hate animate than inanimate things, Animals more than plants, and one's fellow men more completely than any animals.
Nothing destroys the powers of general observation quite so much as a life of experimental science.
To you literature is an end, to me, literature, like architecture, is a means, it has a use. Scientific truth is the remotest of mistresses, she hides in strange places. H.G. Wells Nothing destroys the powers of general observation quite so much as a life of experimental science. They were of course quite undistinguished-looking men, as indeed all true Scientists are. H.G. Wells Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.