Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

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.

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.

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.

As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense.

I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am.