Quotes from David Lagercrantz

When the noise died down, she could lose herself in mathematics—in attempts to combine quantum mechanics with the theory of relativity—and forget the world around her.

Lies as a way of creating chaos and confusion. Lies as an alternative to violence.

is deeply sad when we use the greatest being of all as an instrument for our own smallness.

Hilda argued that our fate is more likely determined by what she called our "unique environment"—the one we do not share with anyone, not even our siblings. It is the environment we seek out and create for ourselves, for example, when we find something which delights and fascinates us and drives us in a certain direction.

Heredity and environment interact constantly, Hilda wrote. We seek out occurrences and activities which stimulate our genes and make them flourish, and we avoid things which frighten us or make us uncomfortable.

hereditary factors in conjunction with our unique environment are the primary factors in shaping our personalities.

Hilda observed that science always loses its way when guided by ideology or wishful thinking.

People are so unnecessarily negative about envy. It really ought to be struck off the list of deadly sins.

The sum of all vices does not remain constant. Each one breeds another.

I like stupid questions," Rimmer said. "They allow one to feel intelligent for once.

Given his age, Jan Bublanski was afraid of many things. But perhaps he feared the absence of doubt most of all. He was a man of faith who was uncomfortable in the face of convictions too strongly held or over-simplified explanations. He was forever producing counter-arguments and contrary hypotheses. Nothing was so certain that it could not be challenged one more time.

She saw more melody in a differential equation than in a piece by Beethoven.

Salander was up at 5:00 the next morning and hacked into the NSF Major Research Instrumentation supercomputer at the New Jersey Institute of Technology—she needed all the mathematical skills she could muster.

she seemed cold—like a predator eyeing its prey.

continuar trabajando o para evadirse del mundo con una serie de televisión o una novela negra.

There is rioting in the suburbs; an openly racist party sits in Riksdagen, the parliament; intolerance is growing; fascism is on the rise and there are homeless people and beggars everywhere. In many ways Sweden has become a shameful nation.

science always loses its way when guided by ideology or wishful thinking.

the sleeper shark can live to the age of four hundred years, because it exists in slow motion.

You could probably call the whole thing an ordinary love story.

it's always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn't care less. It's the ones fighting for good who are consumed by remorse.

You do know what the campaign against you is all about, don't you? Your uncompromising attitude makes people feel pathetic. Your very existence reminds them just how much they've sold out,

Where are you going?" Turing had asked. "Nowhere." "Me too.

A man who can make love with another man can also make love with the enemy.

He had pored over old photographs,