Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: August 30, 1797 - February 1, 1851
Birthday: August 30
Death: February 1
It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.
source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Easyread Edition”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com
topic: Ambition, Reality, Views, Inquirers, Chimera
