Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything especially as I am now so much occupied with theology but I don't see my way to your conclusion.