Falling Upwards Quotes

“Glaisher emphasised the particular scientific virtues required by ballooning: meticulous care and accuracy, calmness and detachment, stoic self-discipline; and a kind of spiritual openness to the wonders of Creation.”
― Richard Holmes, Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

“The cool feats of our scientific men are known to us all – such as that of Sir Humphry Davy inhaling a particular gas with an accurate report every minute or two of its successive effects upon his brain and sense.”
― Richard Holmes, Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

“In October 1864 the Scottish literary magazine Blackwood’s published a satirical article on superfluous Victorian hobbies, especially extreme sports and the fashion for futile risk-taking. It was particularly fierce on the desire to rise above one’s station.”
― Richard Holmes, Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

“Every invention, every innovation in the history of the world, has been laughed at. Columbus was renounced as a faker; Morse was called a crank; Franklin a fool; Charles Darwin ridiculed for years. It seems to be the fate of every man or woman who discovers a new fact, to be made the subject of attacks of the most violent nature, without rhyme or reason.”
― Richard Holmes, Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

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― Richard Holmes, Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air