Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

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

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.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends to associate itself with some kind of unalterable moral tradition, that there can be no truce between science and religion.