For Those Who Do Not Think, It

Science Is Knowledge Arranged And Classified According To Truth, Facts, And The General Laws Of Nature.

The Secret Of Improved Plant Breeding, Apart From Scientific Knowledge, Is Love. While I Was Conducting Experiments To Make Spineless Cacti, I Often Talked To The Plants. . . . "you Have Nothing To Fear," I Would Tell Them. "you Don't Need Your Defensive Thorns. I Will Protect You." Gradually The Useful Plant Of The Desert Emerged In A Thornless Variety.

Do Not Feed Children On A Maudlin Sentimentalism Or Dogmatic Religion; Give Them Nature. Let Their Souls Drink In All That Is Pure And Sweet. Rear Them, If Possible, Amid Pleasant Surroundings ... Let Nature Teach Them The Lessons Of Good And Proper Living, Combined With An Abundance Of Well-balanced Nourishment. Those Children Will Grow To Be The Best Men And Women. Put The Best In Them By Contact With The Best Outside. They Will Absorb It As A Plant Absorbs The Sunshine And The Dew.

Every Child Should Have Mud Pies, Grasshoppers, Water Bugs, Tadpoles, Frogs, Mud Turtles, Elderberries, Wild Strawberries, Acorns, Chestnuts, Trees To Climb. Brooks To Wade, Water Lilies, Woodchucks, Bats, Bees, Butterflies, Various Animals To Pet, Hayfields, Pine-cones, Rocks To Roll, Sand, Snakes, Huckleberries And Hornets; And Any Child Who Has Been Deprived Of These Has Been Deprived Of The Best Part Of Education.

Let Us Read The Bible Without The Ill-fitting Colored Spectacles Of Theology, Just As We Read Other Books, Using Our Own Judgment And Reason, Listening To The Voice Within, Not To The Noisy Babel Without. Most Of Us Possess Discriminating Reasoning Powers. Can We Use Them Or Must We Be Fed By Others Like Babes?