I Suppose The Process Of Acceptance Will

An Attempt To Study The Evolution Of Living Organisms Without Reference To Cytology Would Be As Futile As An Account Of Stellar Evolution Which Ignored Spectroscopy.

Reality Is The Cage Of Those Who Lack Imagination.

It Seems To Me Immensely Unlikely That Mind Is A Mere By-product Of Matter. For If My Mental Processes Are Determined Wholly By The Motions Of Atoms In My Brain I Have No Reason To Suppose That My Beliefs Are True. They May Be Sound Chemically, But That Does Not Make Them Sound Logically. And Hence I Have No Reason For Supposing My Brain To Be Composed Of Atoms.

While I Do Not Suggest That Humanity Will Ever Be Able To Dispense With Its Martyrs, I Cannot Avoid The Suspicion That With A Little More Thought And A Little Less Belief Their Number May Be Substantially Reduced.

Science Is Vastly More Stimulating To The Imagination Than The Classics.