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

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.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.

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

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

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.