Quotes from Sam Hughes

But, she remembers, you always have to assume that the present is real. It's the only way to remain sane. It's the only way to remain ethical.

This is not a mystical adventure. You are not the protagonist. You're seeing and doing things which are having profound emotional effects on you. You're being irrational. You're not thinking things through, you're not working things out. You're going on mental arithmetic instead of paper arithmetic and you're going on gut instinct instead of worked, peer-reviewed results.This is not good science.

Until you can prove otherwise, always assume you're in reality.

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!