"You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed and confounded by the supreme constructive ingenuity revealed not only in the retina and in the dioptric apparatus of the vertebrates but even in the meanest insect eye. ... I felt more profoundly than in any other subject of study the shuddering sensation of the unfathomable mystery of life.”

Source : Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1989). “Recollections of My Life”, p.576, MIT Press
“Students who don't want to get anywhere are sure to get somewhere.”
“I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.”
“He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.”
“I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.”
“The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.”

Source : Speech at the Bombay Rotary Club on November 02, 1943. "Keynote: Excerpts from his speeches and chairman's statements to shareholders". Book by J. R. D Tata, 1986.
“Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.”
“You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.”

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