Freedom, like charity, begins at home.

It is a very rare church indeed that encourages its members to think for themselves in religious matters, or even tolerates this, and in most of them the clergy are quite ready to lay down the law in other fields too.

Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

Nothing in science has any value if it is not communicated.

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

so long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he is often going to need to have his ears slapped back, and who should do this but the clergy?