Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.

Americans need rest, but do not know it.

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force.