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Joseph Conrad
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Science Quotes by Joseph Conrad (4 quotes)
Don’t talk to me of your Archimedes’ lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
— Joseph Conrad
In 'Preface', A Personal Record (1912), 2.
The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.
— Joseph Conrad
In Typhoon, and Other Stories (1902, 1923), 46. Writing started in 1899, and first published serialized in Pall Mall Magazine (Jan–Mar 1902).
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
— Joseph Conrad
In Lord Jim (1900), 230.
They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.
— Joseph Conrad
In Lord Jim (1900), 24.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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