Quotes by Scarlett Thomas

Scarlett Thomas

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

Mathematics

Metaphor

Way

Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I’m constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.

Anxious

Imagine

Wells

For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it’s like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

Encouragement

Love Is

Orchids

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

Arguing

Memories

Water

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

Homeopathy

Mathematical

Poetic

Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

Authenticity

Bigs

Honesty

I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because it’s as if they can’t get past their emotions, and in their rage they become as faith-driven as the beliefs they criticise. I always said they give scientists a bad name. After all, science has to be about asking unthinkable questions, not closing down debate.

Giving

Names

Past

I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn’t undo the fact that I’d had the thought in the first place.

Facts

Firsts

Mind

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

Cliche

Hate

Stereotype

I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?

Life Is Like

Reality

Stories

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Animal

Anxious

Arguing

Authenticity

Beginning Writers

Believe

Bigs

Book

Character

Church

Cliche

Colour

Creative

Creative Thought

Dangerous World

Divorce

Encouragement

Events

Eye

Facts

Fiction

Firsts

Frustrated

Gathering

Get Better

Girl

Giving

Grownups

Has Beens

Hate

Homeopathy

Honesty

Horizon

Ideas

Ifs

Imagine

Judging

Life Is Like

Light

Love Is

Lucky

Lying

Making Love

Mathematical

Mathematics

Mean

Meaningful

Memories

Metaphor

Mind

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Quotes by Scarlett Thomas

Scarlett Thomas

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I’m constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.

For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it’s like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn’t undo the fact that I’d had the thought in the first place.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

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