“I ought to have flown.”
“You’ll fly yet. No. Perhaps you won’t. When your dead people have solved the problem, you’ll be found weeping over the rusty skeleton of a locomotive.”
“I don’t mean Lilienfeld and Maxim. I can be fearfully interested in all that when I think of it. But to the people who do not see the beginning of flying it won’t seem wonderful. It won’t change anything.”
“It’ll change, Miriam, pretty well everything. And if you don’t mean Lilienfeld and Maxim what do you mean?”
“Well, by inventing the telephone we’ve damaged the chances of telepathy.”
“Nonsense, Miriam. You’re suffering from too much Taylor.”
“The most striking thing about Taylor is that he does not want to develop his powers.”
“What powers?”
“The things in him that have made him discover things that you admit are true; that make you interested in his little paper.”
“They’re not right you know about their phosphoric bank; energy is not a simple calculable affair.”