“My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! …5” — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
“The celebrated Parisian doctor Professor Xavier Bichat developed a fully materialist theory of the human body and mind in his lectures Physiological Researches on… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
“Into this stronghold of royalist tradition and prejudice, Shelley unloaded truckloads of French philosophy, German horror novels, his solar microscope and several crates of… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
“He (the British soldier) is generally beloved by two sorts of Companion, in whores and lice, for both these Vermin are great admirers of… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
“My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; So was it when my life began; So is it now I… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
“Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a whole. The… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
“People today do not know the difference between a bombardier and a brigadier” — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
“Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009” — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
