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

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

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.

The lure of happiness and the fear of pain . . . are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction.

Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.

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

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