When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains.