Now, if the cooperation of some thousands of millions of cells in our brain can produce our consciousness, a true singularity, the idea becomes vastly more plausible that the cooperation of humanity, or some sections of it, may determine what Comte calls a Great Being.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

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.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.