Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.