Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel. — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
“The very name Impressionism is taken from an Atlantic Ocean painting - that of Monet, of sunrise in the harbor of Le Havre, done… — Simon winchester Copy Share Image
My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing to be… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
“or of oats (“ a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people”),” — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
We should all live in central or southwest Queensland in Australia, which is geologically stable. Or Kansas or Nebraska, because it's relatively geologically stable.… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
“The scientific world of the time was in the midst of a terrible ferment, with discoveries and realizations coming at an unseemly rate. To… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
“and his youngest sister, Henrietta, lived to a great age, also beside the sea, with a vast collection of cats—having previously traveled around England… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
“The cities of the eastern American fall line are well known today—Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Fredericksburg, Philadelphia—even though the part that the very similar accidents… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
