The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty
blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
This planet, with all its appalling immensity, is to electric currents virtually no more than a small metal ball.
Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.
A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally, I would have given for that one which I had wrested from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence …
Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.