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.

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.

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.

Science is the only savior.

Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.

Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to learn how to think. I welcome a fair and square, open and above-board fight on any subject, including this, but I despise a man who sneaks around under a cloak or cover of any society or clique to strike his blows.

As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God.