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Huxley, Aldous

If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Interview with J. W. N. Sullivan, Contemporary Mind, London, 1934.
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