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[children] Are Taught That It Is A Virtue To Accept Statements Without Adequate Evidence, Which Leaves Them A Prey To Quacks Of Every Kind In Later Life, And Makes It Very Difficult For Them To Accept The Methods Of Thought Which Are Successful In Science.

I Will Give Up My Belief In Evolution If Someone Finds A Fossil Rabbit In The Precambrian.

A Discussion Between Haldane And A Friend Began To Take A Predictable Turn. The Friend Said With A Sigh, 'it's No Use Going On. I Know What You Will Say Next, And I Know What You Will Do Next.' The Distinguished Scientist Promptly Sat Down On The Floor, Turned Two Back Somersaults, And Returned To His Seat. 'there,' He Said With A Smile. 'that's To Prove That You're Not Always Right.'

The Future Will Be No Primrose Path. It Will Have Its Own Problems. Some Will Be The Secular Problems Of The Past, Giant Flowers Of Evil Blossoming At Last To Their Own Destruction. Others Will Be Wholly New.

Capitalism, Though It May Not Always Give The Scientific Worker A Living Wage, Will Always Protect Him, As Being One Of The Geese Which Produce Golden Eggs For Its Table.