It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference.
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 14 (1929; rev. 1970).
-- Aleister Crowley, (Oct 12 1875-1947), English occult writer; The Great Beast was a writer of occult lure and Black Magic rites.