"You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values."

"The art of seeing Nature, or in other words, the art of using Models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed."

"But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead."

"Victor Raikes, the Tory M.P., who is an able and outspoken reactionary, made a speech which I should have considered a good one if it had referred only to Poland and Jugoslavia.  But after dealing wit…"

"Magic makes for a slippery concept. Like "gender," "race," or any other term that can be picked apart as a social construction—which of course means all of our terms, every attempt at producing order …"