Catherine Webb

Also known as Claire North, Kate Griffin, Catherine Louise Webb

British writer

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The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle
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Magic Cupid's Oil and the Duckling
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“Complexity should be your excuse for inaction.”
“Pure science is no more and no less than the logical process of deduction and experimentation upon observable events. It has no good or bad about it, merely right or wrong in a strictly mathematical definition. What people do with that science is cause for ethical debate, but it is not for the true scientist to concern themselves with that. Leave it to the politicians and philosophers.”
“Time was simple, is simple. We can divide it into simple parts, measure it, arrange dinner by it, drink whisky to its passage. We can mathematically deploy it, use it to express ideas about the observable universe, and yet if asked to explain it in simple language to a child–in simple language which is not deceit, of course–we are powerless. The most it ever seems we know how to do with time is to waste it.”
“There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.”
“A scientific argument must have some degree of data, some…some sniff of theoretical basis behind it; otherwise it’s not a scientific argument, it’s a philosophical debate.”
“The roads were defined merely by the place where the mud was most pressed down.”