“science never cheered up anyone. the human situation is just too awful.”
“You never get cheered for telling people the situation is not as simple as they think.”
“their eager eyes unlocking the secrets of the human form. who could just look at it as it is, without prettying it up or emphasizing its awfulness”
“All the untidy activity continues,awful but cheerful.”
“God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.”
“The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.”