I can’t get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It’s no longer an effort–Pole–equator–oceans–continents–it’s just a question of which way you point the nose of your plane. The pure joy of flight as an art has given way to the pure efficiency of flight as a science…. Science is insulating man from life — separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetizes his senses so that he doesn’t know what he’s missing.
