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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.