Tom Quotes in An Experiment with an Air Pump
But when I was thirteen, what held me more than anything, was the drama at the centre of it all, the clouds scudding across a stage-set moon, the candle-light dipping and flickering. Who would not want to be caught up in this world? Who could resist the power of light over darkness?
Susannah: Maria, show a little faith, your father would never conduct an experiment unless he was quite sure of the outcome, isn’t that so?
Fenwick: You haven’t quite grasped the subtlety of the word ‘experiment’, Susannah –
Ellen: The fact that you’ve never had a moral qualm in your life doesn’t mean you have superior reasoning power, it just means you have a limited imagination.
Tom: So what’s the difference? At what stage does it stop being disturbing and start being archaeology?
Kate: She probably wasn’t murdered. She was dissected. That’s why some of her’s missing.
Susannah: I am full of feeling and passion and I am wedded to a dried cod.
Tom: The heart retains information, they don’t understand how, yet, but everything’s connected one way or another, nothing exists in isolation. When you feel grief, your heart hurts. When you feel love, it’s your heart that hurts, not your brain. You took this job because your heart told you to.
Tom: So we’re not that much different after all. Art and science are part of the same thing. Like waves and particles. You need both to define the whole.
Tom Quotes in An Experiment with an Air Pump
But when I was thirteen, what held me more than anything, was the drama at the centre of it all, the clouds scudding across a stage-set moon, the candle-light dipping and flickering. Who would not want to be caught up in this world? Who could resist the power of light over darkness?
Susannah: Maria, show a little faith, your father would never conduct an experiment unless he was quite sure of the outcome, isn’t that so?
Fenwick: You haven’t quite grasped the subtlety of the word ‘experiment’, Susannah –
Ellen: The fact that you’ve never had a moral qualm in your life doesn’t mean you have superior reasoning power, it just means you have a limited imagination.
Tom: So what’s the difference? At what stage does it stop being disturbing and start being archaeology?
Kate: She probably wasn’t murdered. She was dissected. That’s why some of her’s missing.
Susannah: I am full of feeling and passion and I am wedded to a dried cod.
Tom: The heart retains information, they don’t understand how, yet, but everything’s connected one way or another, nothing exists in isolation. When you feel grief, your heart hurts. When you feel love, it’s your heart that hurts, not your brain. You took this job because your heart told you to.
Tom: So we’re not that much different after all. Art and science are part of the same thing. Like waves and particles. You need both to define the whole.
