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Top 9 C.E. McGill Quotes (2025 Update)

C.E. McGill Quote: “I will always hold dear to my heart that fact that I was the first to see those golden eyes open, to see its reptilian pupils narrow and focus on my own- for in those eyes I saw, for the first time, proof that we had created something truly alive.”

1. “I will always hold dear to my heart that fact that I was the first to see those golden eyes open, to see its reptilian pupils narrow and focus on my own- for in those eyes I saw, for the first time, proof that we had created something truly alive.”

— C.E. McGill

C.E. McGill Quote: “There is something romantic about feeding a predator from the palm of your hand, I think- a creature which might bite you if it chooses, but chooses not to. But how does one turn such awful beauty to lead and ink on a page?”

2. “There is something romantic about feeding a predator from the palm of your hand, I think- a creature which might bite you if it chooses, but chooses not to. But how does one turn such awful beauty to lead and ink on a page?”

— C.E. McGill

C.E. McGill Quote: “I suppose that is why it often makes me sad to read about history, or even natural history, as you do; I cannot help but think of everyone whose tale cannot fit in one book, those poor creatures who remain lost or forgotten. Do you think that one day, some Mary of the future will sketch our bones and wonder what we might have been in life?”

3. “I suppose that is why it often makes me sad to read about history, or even natural history, as you do; I cannot help but think of everyone whose tale cannot fit in one book, those poor creatures who remain lost or forgotten. Do you think that one day, some Mary of the future will sketch our bones and wonder what we might have been in life?”

— C.E. McGill

C.E. McGill Quote: “We had built here, in this half-ruined boat house on the edge of the Moray Firth, a temple to our own strange gods- to Chemistry and Anatomy and Electricity.”

4. “We had built here, in this half-ruined boat house on the edge of the Moray Firth, a temple to our own strange gods- to Chemistry and Anatomy and Electricity.”

— C.E. McGill

C.E. McGill Quote: “Do little boys ever grow out of being fools, I wonder? Or do they simply grow into something worse?”

5. “Do little boys ever grow out of being fools, I wonder? Or do they simply grow into something worse?”

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C.E. McGill Quote: “One thing was certain: we had done it now, snatched fire from the gods, stolen it down to Earth – and it was only a matter of time before we began to burn.”

6. “One thing was certain: we had done it now, snatched fire from the gods, stolen it down to Earth – and it was only a matter of time before we began to burn.”

— C.E. McGill

C.E. McGill Quote: “We shall steal fire from the heavens, and I shall not repent, even for one minute- for what sort of God would condemn us to such a cold world without it? We are merely taking what should have been ours from the beginning.”

7. “We shall steal fire from the heavens, and I shall not repent, even for one minute- for what sort of God would condemn us to such a cold world without it? We are merely taking what should have been ours from the beginning.”

— C.E. McGill

C.E. McGill Quote: “Of course, it mattered; perhaps the knowledge would not help to build bridges or make new medicines, but that was not all that science was about. Science was about the truth, about knowing what was possible and what was not; it was about the fervor I had felt looking upon the beached whale, or the fossil tooth in Catherine’s palm. I had spent my whole life since in service to that same longing: the ravenous beast that was curiosity.”

8. “Of course, it mattered; perhaps the knowledge would not help to build bridges or make new medicines, but that was not all that science was about. Science was about the truth, about knowing what was possible and what was not; it was about the fervor I had felt looking upon the beached whale, or the fossil tooth in Catherine’s palm. I had spent my whole life since in service to that same longing: the ravenous beast that was curiosity.”

— C.E. McGill

C.E. McGill Quote: “Perhaps I am meant to drown after all. But if I do, then at least it will have been by my own hand.”

9. “Perhaps I am meant to drown after all. But if I do, then at least it will have been by my own hand.”

— C.E. McGill

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