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

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.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

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.

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for their failure to speak out earlier. There is no use now talking evolution to these people. Their ears are stuffed with Genesis.

Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley, he has not even the oratorical skill of Bryan. The whole movement is based on the poor whites of the south.