Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSurely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAll we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.
Gilbert K. ChestertonScience only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was as abstract as Algebra. ... We may say that the great Greek ideal was to have no use for useful things. The Slave was he who learned useful things; the Freeman was he who learned useless things. This still remains the ideal of many noble men of science, in the sense they do desire truth as the great Greeks desired it; and their attitude is an external protest against vulgarity of utilitarianism.
Gilbert K. Chesterton