To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.
The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.
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.
One of the problems with sex education. . . is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.
I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives
But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.
We know that investment causes growth. But it is also true that growth causes investment.