Quote#Science & Reason
"It's this accursed science," I cried. "It's the very Devil. The…
Quote byH. G. Wells · 1866–1946
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The First Men in the Moon (1901), Ch. 13: Mr. Cavor Makes Some Suggestions.
English (original)
"It's this accursed science," I cried. "It's the very Devil. The medieval priests and persecutors were right and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it—and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way. Old passions and new weapons—now it upsets your religion, now it upsets your social ideas, now it whirls you off to desolation and misery!"
— H. G. Wells
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