“No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.”

To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction.

Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with it gas stations, roads, garages, mechanics, and a thousand other subsidiary details.

A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.

If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight

All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.

Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?

I don’t see myself being in the sport a very long period of time, so I want to fight as much as possible.

Beginning with the early dawn of each day, I will radiate joy to everyone I meet. I will be mental sunshine for all who cross my path. Before the unfailing light of my cheer, darkness will take flight.

Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.