Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to give a reasonable result of a healthy child -- this would afford a very good inducement to some sort of care for the race, and gradually as public opinion became educated by the law, it might react on the law and make that more stringent, until one got to some state of things in which there would be a little genuine care for the race, instead of the present haphazard higgledy-piggledy ways.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.