A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As these codes have always been opposed to those of the gospels a loophole has been left for moral progress such as hardly exists in other religions.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.