“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.

How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

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