In The Midst Of Every Crisis, Lies

The Release Of Atomic Energy Has Not Created A New Problem. It Has Merely Made More Urgent The Necessity Of Solving An Existing One.

In Their Struggle For The Ethical Good, Teachers Of Religion Must Have The Stature To Give Up The Doctrine Of A Personal God, That Is, Give Up That Source Of Fear And Hope Which In The Past Placed Such Vast Power In The Hands Of Priests. In Their Labors They Will Have To Avail Themselves Of Those Forces Which Are Capable Of Cultivating The Good, The True, And The Beautiful In Humanity Itself. This Is, To Be Sure, A More Difficult But An Incomparably More Worthy Task.

The Stupid Are Invincible.

It Must Be Conceded That A Theory Has An Important Advantage If Its Basic Concepts And Fundamental Hypotheses Are 'close To Experience,' And Greater Confidence In Such A Theory Is Certainly Justified. There Is Less Danger Of Going Completely Astray, Particularly Since It Takes So Much Less Time And Effort To Disprove Such Theories By Experience. Yet More And More, As The Depth Of Our Knowledge Increases, We Must Give Up This Advantage In Our Quest For Logical Simplicity In The Foundations Of Physical Theory.

Mere Unbelief In A Personal God Is No Philosophy At All.