There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom

We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth and decay of the elements of matter. With radium and with uranium we do not see anything but the decay. And yet, somewhere, somehow, it is almost certain that these elements must be continuously forming. They are probably being put together now in the laboratory of the stars. ... Can we ever learn to control the process. Why not? Only research can tell.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.

Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

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

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