First Journal of Travel (1840)
Source: Death in Venice and Other Tales
“It may be asked, if He, as appears, has chosen to employ inferior organisms as a generative medium”
Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 235
Context: It may be asked, if He, as appears, has chosen to employ inferior organisms as a generative medium for the production of higher ones, even including ourselves, what right have we, his humble creatures, to find fault? There is, also, in this prejudice, an element of unkindliness towards the lower animals, which is utterly out of place. These creatures are all of them part products of the Almighty Conception, as well as ourselves.... Let us regard them in a proper spirit, as parts of the grand plan, instead of contemplating them in the light of frivolous prejudices, and we shall be altogether at a loss to see how there should be any degradation in the idea of our race having been genealogically connected with them.
"Between Solitude and Loneliness," The New Yorker, October 15, 2016
“The astonishing thing about Einstein's equations is that they appear to have come out of nothing.”
As quoted by Gerald James Whitrow, The Structure of the Universe: An Introduction to Cosmology (1949)
Rome, or Reason? A Reply to Cardinal Manning. Part I. The North American Review (1888)
“Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.”
Source: Prodigal Summer (2000).
The Theory of Economic Development (1934), Ch. 6 : The Business Cycle
