If You Violate Nature's Laws You Are

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.

Although I Went To College As A Youth, I Never Considered It Necessary To Steep Oneself In Academic Learning, In Order To Learn How To Think. I Welcome A Fair And Square, Open And Above-board Fight On Any Subject, Including This, But I Despise A Man Who Sneaks Around Under A Cloak Or Cover Of Any Society Or Clique To Strike His Blows.

Do Not Feed Children On Maudlin Sentimentalism Or Dogmatic Religion; Give Them Nature

However, When It Can Be Proved To Me That There Is Immortality, That There Is Resurrection Beyond The Gates Of Death, Then Will I Believe. Until Then, No.

Less Than Fifteen Per Cent Of The People Do Any Original Thinking On Any Subject. The Greatest Torture In The World For Most People Is To Think.