I am infinitely strange to myself.
Between skin and skin, there is only light.
Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.
He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be purposive, industrious, always seeking greater knowledge.