Quotes by Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

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The mysterious Enoch Root meets 8-year-old Benjamin Franklin, Boston, 1713: "Do I look like a schoolmaster to you?" "No, — Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules — Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy mille — Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you. — Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the other?""The other is — Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understanding of the world.""And — Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestinatio — Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver