In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.