Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
It’s this accursed science…. It’s the very Devil. The medieval priests and persecutors were right and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it–and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way. Old passions and new weapons–now it upsets your religion, now it upsets your social ideas, now it whirls you off to desolation and misery!
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.