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

It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch, and being killed with an automatic pistol or shell in place of a dagger or a battle-axe.

I do not believe in the commercial possibility of induced radioactivity.

The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

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