# Quote — Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

> The railway hit Harrow on the Hill in 1880 and it’s been downhill ever since, culminating in one of those formless red brick shopping centres which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built.

- Author: [Ben Aaronovitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch.md)
- Book: [The Furthest Station](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station.md)
- Page: 45
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch#The_Furthest_Station_(2017)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/the-railway-hit

## More from this book

> Or my gut was wrong.
>
> Confirmation bias has put more innocent people in prison than malice.

p. 98 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/or-my-gut.md)

> “Like when you kiss me,” she said. “Is it enjoyable because of the physical sensation or is it because you think it should be enjoyable?”
>
> Good question, and we quickly developed experimental protocol which unfortunately left us too knackered to record our results properly and thus invalidated any conclusions. We have faith in the methodology, though, and continue to repeat the experiment on a regular basis.
>
> And people say science is dull.

p. 103 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/like-when-you.md)

> The house was neat and well cared for, but to my eye the Heywoods were losing the battle against the four-year-old agent of entropy who was living with them

p. 73 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/the-house-was.md)