Personally, I feel more irritated by a challenge to an accepted scientific theory than I do by an act of so-called "evil" or "injustice" among mankind; although I never allow my irritation to hamper my acceptance of the new theory as soon as positive evidence warrants it. Thus I have reluctantly exchanged the old nebular for the planetesimal hypothesis, and am beginning to accept the main points of relativity despite a profound intellectual distaste. What is, is—and our emotions regarding the cosmos and its phenomena are of no significance whatever, being wholly subjective matters dependent on individual accidents of neural and glandular physiology and of experience and environment.


Letter to Woodburn Harris (25 February-1 March 1929), in Selected Letters II, 1925-1929 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, pp. 287-288

H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Personally, I feel more irritated by a challenge to an accepted scientific theory than I do by an act of so-called evil or injustice among mankind;...

Personally, I feel more irritated by a challenge to an accepted scientific theory than I do by an act of so-called evil or injustice among mankind;...

Personally, I feel more irritated by a challenge to an accepted scientific theory than I do by an act of so-called evil or injustice among mankind;...

Personally, I feel more irritated by a challenge to an accepted scientific theory than I do by an act of so-called evil or injustice among mankind;...