Matthew Pearl Quotes.

1. "Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured."
- Quote by Matthew Pearl

2. "Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long. Had I never learned to like books, I would have become the dullest sort of hermit."
- Quote by Matthew Pearl

3. "Every scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Second, they say it has been discovered before. Last, they say they always believed it."
- Matthew Pearl, The Technologists

4. "Money is good, but it is not all about a man. You will have successes and reversals, but remember it is your reaction to each of them that counts for your character."
- Matthew Pearl, The Technologists

5. "...and luckily I have enough in my head to balance what is wanting in my back."
- Matthew Pearl, The Technologists

6. "In fact, the laboratory may be the greatest friend to dumb animals. As science advances, the lives of animals will improve as we depend less and less on their labor and no longer ignore their conditions in order to improve ours. You know, there is much to learn from animals if we are ever to be truly industrial creatures. The beaver is the finest builder of bridges and the silkworm a better weaver than any man or woman. God gave industry perfectly to the caterpillar while we must learn our arts. That is technology--our way to become closer to being like animals."
- Matthew Pearl, The Technologists

7. "Unlike New York or Chicago, once you were inside Boston, any point in the city was fairly convenient to any other."
- Matthew Pearl, The Technologists

8. "Only a few pages into "The Technologists" and Matthew Pearl already has written a gem about Boston: "Then would come the view of the stretches of docks and piers...then beyond that the State House’s gold dome capping the horizon—the glittering cranium of the world’s smartest city."
- Matthew Pearl, The Technologists

9. "I never fully realized how much a New England birth in itself was worth, but I am happy that that was my lot. I have felt it so keenly these last few days. Dear old New England, with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions; the home of all that is good and noble."
- Matthew Pearl, The Technologists

10. "Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?"
- Matthew Pearl, The Last Dickens