Marie Curie
Physicist, Chemist
"A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales."
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Fairy Stories
33 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"Fairy tales are more than true."
Alexandre Dumas
Novelist, Playwright
"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
Nat King Cole
Singer, Pianist
"I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories."
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
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"The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love."
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"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."
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"I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am."
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"The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords."
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"As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm."
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"Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said."
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"the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,” as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused."
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"The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed."
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