Scientific development and curiosity

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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“You start a question and it’s like starting a stone [...] and presently some bland old bird [...] is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family have to change their name.” Enfield Story of the Door
“Such unscientific balderdash” Lanyon Story of the Door
“what he called my scientific heresies” Jekyll Dr Jekyll was Quite at Ease
“I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away.” Lanyon Remarkable Incident of Doctor Lanyon
“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it” Narrator Remarkable Incident of Doctor Lanyon
“crying night and day for some sort of medicine and cannot get it to his mind.” Poole The Last Night
“Annotated, in his own hands, with startling blasphemies” Narrator The Last Night
“Certain agents I found to have the power to shake and to pluck back that fleshly vestment” Jekyll Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case
“The temptation of a discovery was so singular and profound” Jekyll Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case
“Had I approached my discovery in a more noble spirit, had I risked the experiment while under the empire of generous or pious aspirations” Jekyll Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case
“I am now persuaded that my first supply was impure, and that it was that unknown impurity which lent efficacy to the draught.” Jekyll Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case

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