What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.

Religion grows with the intelligence of man, but all religions of the past and probably all of the future will sooner or later become petrified forms instead of living helps to mankind. Until that time comes, however, if religion of any name or nature makes man more happy, comfortable, and able to live peaceably with his brothers, it is good.

The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

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.

All my work has come about through a change in my earlier opinion of religion.

Nature is not personal. She is the compound of all these processes which move through the universe to effect the results we know as Life and of all the ordinances which govern that universe and that make Life continuous. She is no more the Hebrew's Jehovah than she is the Physicist's Force; she is as much Providence as she is Electricity; she is not the Great Pattern any more than she is the Blind Chance.