We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

Commerce is the great civilizer.

When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust.

If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?