Frankenstein Mary Shelley Science Quotes & Sayings

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. — Mary Shelley

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. — Mary Shelley

CREATED by an eighteen-year-old girl during the freakishly cold, rainy summer of 1816 while on holiday in Switzerland with her married lover, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and two other writers, the poet Lord Byron and John Polidori, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein would become the foundational work for two important new genres of literature - horror and science fiction. — Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game. — William Gibson