..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled.

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.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

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