We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.
All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.
One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is. . . the Dynamical Theory of Gases
What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.
If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots, you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
What we lack is intensity of life.
In my second year of Harvard Divinity School, where I was studying to be a minister like my father, I met a guy named Robert Cox, who had been the editor of the Buenos Aires Herald during the Dirty War in Argentina. Bob used to print the names of those who had been disappeared the day before, above the fold in his newspaper. It was a kind of an awakening to me to see what great journalism can and should do.