"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place be afforded; it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself."
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Source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.10
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