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H. P. Lovecraft
(20 Aug 1890 - 15 Mar 1937)
American writer, editor and novelist whose short stories of the weird, macabre and supernatural horror followed in the footsteps of Edgar Allan Poe. One of his best-known short novels, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (written in 1927, published postumously) was the basis for two movies.
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Science Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft (1 quote)
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
— H. P. Lovecraft
Written in 1926, and first published in magazine, Weird Tales (Feb 1928), 11, No. 2, first paragraph. In The Call of Cthulhu (2014), 2.
See also:
- The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, by H.P. Lovecraft. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for H.P. Lovecraft.
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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