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‘Accurate information and better technology are important in promoting discover, but so are excessively optimistic, unrealistic, even flat-out false anticipations. The marvelous is more important than the scientific in the initial and most risky stages of innovation’ —Paul Freedman (Out of the East, p. 142)
‘Eating too much cabbage may be a form of gluttony, but it doesn’t carry much moral opprobrium or significance beyond that’ —Paul Freedman (Out of the East, p. 159)
‘It isn’t necessarily the great and famous beauty spots that we fall in love with. As with people, so with places: love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious’ —Muriel Spark (‘Tuscany by Chance’, in The Informed Air, p. 63)