A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.

You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals

The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.