Quotes about Inert

They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;

they have hands, but cannot feel; they have feet, but cannot walk; they cannot even clear their throats.

They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;

imagination, and as the frontiers of knowledge are pushed still further away from the obvious and familiar, there will be an increasing tax on the imagination. The world of dead matter which our fathers thought they understood has become a world of subtle forces moving with inconceivable velocity; nothing is inert, all things are transformed into other and more elusive shapes precisely as the makers of the fairy tales foresaw and