The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree on that that's a more toxic and contentious issue, granting full amnesty.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad, indeed, is it to see how men occupy themselves with trivialities, and are indifferent to the grandest phenomena - care not to understand the architecture of the heavens, but are deeply interested in some contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!