When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
Philip PullmanI wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize the heroes and the heroines much more than they are characterized in Grimm. I like the psychological flatness of them, the fact that they're more like masks than individuals.
Philip PullmanBut I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.
Philip PullmanIt's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.
Philip Pullman