The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.

Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.

... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which decides what we can observe.

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.