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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Besides, I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy.
2 As a child I had not been content with the results promised by the modern professors of natural science.
3 I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination, which modern inquirers have written on these subjects.
4 He said that "These were men to whose indefatigable zeal modern philosophers were indebted for most of the foundations of their knowledge."
5 In spite of the intense labour and wonderful discoveries of modern philosophers, I always came from my studies discontented and unsatisfied.
6 I have often attributed my attachment to, my passionate enthusiasm for, the dangerous mysteries of ocean to that production of the most imaginative of modern poets.
7 After having made a few preparatory experiments, he concluded with a panegyric upon modern chemistry, the terms of which I shall never forget: "The ancient teachers of this science," said he, "promised impossibilities and performed nothing."
8 The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life is a chimera but these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles.