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.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

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

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.

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 extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.