How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"I take no stances on theology, Erasmus," said the doctor. "I am a scientist. But is it not said that we are his instruments? If that is the case, then God brought you to her and directed you hence to my door." (1.14)
Dr. Warthrop clearly doesn't put much stock in religion, but he's at least respectful of the fact that other people do. Not everyone is so open-minded.
Quote #2
I daresay your average adult would have fled the room in horror, run screaming up the stairs and out of the house, for what lay within that burlap cocoon laid shame to all the platitudes and promises from a thousand pulpits upon the nature of a just and loving God, of a balanced and kind universe, and the dignity of man. A crime, the old grave-robber had called it. Indeed there seemed no better word for it… (1.72)
It's actually pretty common for people to question the existence of God when they're confronted with something truly terrible. How could God have created Anthropophagus and then allowed them to commit all of their atrocities if he is, as the Bible says, loving and just?
Quote #3
"I mean no offense, Warthrop. My area of expertise is held in no greater regard than yours. I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own." (6.82)
At the end of the book we learn that Dr. Starr has known about the Anthropophagi for over two decades (he was complicit in their feeding, after all), so how can he say that the monsters Dr. Warthrop chases are purely in his imagination? Hasn't he had ample proof that such things exist?