Isaac Bloom quotes from Ripper Street

Isaac Bloom

Galileo said mathematics was the language which God has written the universe. I seek the hidden words. You might term it a kind of detective work.

Edmund Reid

In my detective work I find little evidence of God.

Isaac Bloom

But you seek order in all things, Inspector. The notion of meaningless chaos is abhorrent to you.

Isaac Bloom

Joshua was right. Justice has become a commodity. Is this the shadow of what is to be, Inspector? My brother used to say the future belongs to men of reason, not of faith.

Edmund Reid

On that I would agree with him.

Isaac Bloom

And mathematics tells us something different. The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum. You understand?

Edmund Reid

A little.

Isaac Bloom

Disorder, Inspector. Everything from the smallest system to our entire world moves always, irretrievably, from order into chaos. And there is nothing to be done about it. Do you share that belief?

Edmund Reid

No.

Isaac Bloom

Then perhaps you are a man of faith after all.

Isaac Bloom

Oh, I am rational, inspector. And I hear every day men such as yourself, who would have us believe our journey to truth will set us free. But man has no more desire for truth than a dung beetle. Like any animal, he desires meat and sex. And like any animal who feels himself caged by what he is, he will yearn for anything that lies beyond the bars. Dee called it magic. You call it progress.

Edmund Reid

You are a cynic.

Isaac Bloom

I am a scientist. The only thing as irrational as faith in God is faith in Man.