The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting around on dry goods boxes at every corner [viz. the cubic atom], ready to shake hands with, or hold on to similar loafer electrons in other atoms.

There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run out is a completely unscientific Utopian dream, a childish bug-a-boo. Nature has introduced a few fool-proof devices into the great majority of elements that constitute the bulk of the world, and they have no energy to give up in the process of disintegration.

To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.

I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".