It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
I have thousands of opinions still – but that is down from millions – and, as always, I know nothing.
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
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