Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“It is the nature of science that answers automatically pose new and more subtle questions.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
The Wellsprings of Life (1960), p. 141
General sources
David Hume book An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
§ 4.9
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
Patricia Reilly Giff (1935) American children's writer
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 90
“We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Of Eating of Flesh, Tract 1
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XIII: On Groundless Fears
Original: (la) Plura sunt, quae nos terrent quam quae premunt, et saepius opinione quam re laboramus.
Spider Robinson (1948) Canadian author
God Is An Iron (1977)
Context: Man has historically devoted much more subtle and ingenious thought to inflicting cruelty than to giving others pleasure — which, given his gregarious nature, would seem a much more survival-oriented behavior. Poll any hundred people at random and you'll find at least twenty or thirty who know all there is to know about psychological torture and psychic castration — and maybe two who know how to give a terrific back-rub.
“We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
George Moore (novelist) (1852–1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist
Source: Memoirs of My Dead Life http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8mmdl10.txt (1906), Ch. 6: Spent Loves.
John of St. Samson (1571–1636)
From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.
