“The celebrated Parisian doctor Professor Xavier Bichat developed a fully materialist theory of the human body and mind in his lectures Physiological Researches on Life and Death, translated into English in 1816. Bichat defined life bleakly as ‘the sum of… — 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
