Citations:explained


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics." He then took me into his laboratory and explained to me the uses of his various machines, instructing me as to what I ought to procure and promising me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange their mechanism.
 * I was at first unable to solve these questions, but perpetual attention and time explained to me many appearances which were at first enigmatic.
 * While I listened to the instructions which Felix bestowed upon the Arabian, the strange system of human society was explained to me.