The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the Moabite stone shows that King Mesa held Chemosh to be, as unquestionably, the superior of Jahveh.

Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.

Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war.... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.