Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.

Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

As a scientist, I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation . . . I am an infidel today. I do not believe what had been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.