Joseph Conrad Quote

The demonstration must be against learning-science. But not every science will do. The attack must have all the shocking senselessness of gratuitous blasphemy. Since bombs are your means of expression, it would be really telling if one could throw a bomb into pure mathematics. But that is impossible... What do you think of having a go at astronomy?


The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Chapter II (p. 38), Doubleday, Page & Company. 1916


The demonstration must be against learning-science. But not every science will do. The attack must have all the shocking senselessness of gratuitous...

The demonstration must be against learning-science. But not every science will do. The attack must have all the shocking senselessness of gratuitous...

The demonstration must be against learning-science. But not every science will do. The attack must have all the shocking senselessness of gratuitous...

The demonstration must be against learning-science. But not every science will do. The attack must have all the shocking senselessness of gratuitous...