Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

Men of Science would do well to talk plain English. The most abstruse questions can very well be discussed in our own tongue ... I make a particular appeal to the botanists, who appear to delight in troublesome words.

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be supplied in atoms, as money is doled out in pence or centimes instead of continuously;-in which case our customary existence will turn out to be no more really continuous than the events on a kinematograph screen;-while that great agent of continuity, the Ether of Space, will be relegated to the museum of historical curiosities.

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.