Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is. We change our state at birth, and come into the world of air and sense and myriad existence; we … - Oliver Lodge

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

I am as convinced of continued existence, on the other side of death, as I am of existence here. It may said, you cannot be sure as you are of sensory experience. I say I can. A physicist is never limited to direct sensory impressions, he has to deal with a multitude of conceptions and things for which he has no physical organ ....

Our memories are thronged with the past; our anticipations range over the future; and it is in the past and the future that we really live. It is so even with the higher animals: they too order their lives by memory and anticipation.