I Have Learned From Nature That Dependence

The Idea That A Good God Would Send People To A Burning Hell Is Utterly Damnable To Me. I Don't Want To Have Anything To Do With Such A God. But While I Cannot Conceive Of Such A God, I Do Recognize The Existence Of A Great Universal Power - A Power Which We Cannot Even Begin To Comprehend And Might As Well Not Attempt To. It May Be A Conscious Mind, Or It May Not. I Don't Know. As A Scientist I Should Like To Know, But As A Man, I Am Not So Vitally Concerned.

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.

As A Scientist I Cannot Help Feeling That All Religions Are On A Tottering Foundation. None Is Perfect Or Inspired. As For Their Prophets, There Are As Many Today As Ever Before, Only Now Science Refuses To Let Them Overstep The Bounds Of Common Sense.

If We Had Paid No More Attention To Our Plants Than We Have To Our Children, We Would Now Be Living In A Jungle Of Weed.

The Scientist Is A Lover Of Truth For The Very Love Of Truth Itself, Wherever It May Lead.