Science Is As Yet In Its Infancy,

Blake Expressed Some Doubt As To Whether God Had Made The Tiger. But The Tiger Is In Many Ways An Admirable Animal. We Have Now To Ask Whether God Made The Tapeworm. And It Is Questionable Whether An Affirmative Answer Fits In Either With What We Know About The Process Of Evolution Or What Many Of Us Believe About The Moral Perfection Of God.

The Idea Of Protoplasm, Which Was Really A Name For Our Ignorance, [is] Only A Little Less Misleading Than The Expression "vital Force".

In Fact, Words Are Well Adapted For Description And The Arousing Of Emotion, But For Many Kinds Of Precise Thought Other Symbols Are Much Better.

I Have No Doubt That In Reality The Future Will Be Vastly More Surprising Than Anything I Can Imagine. Now My Own Suspicion Is That The Universe Is Not Only Queerer Than We Suppose, But Queerer Than We Can Suppose.

If One Could Conclude As To The Nature Of The Creator From A Study Of Creation It Would Appear That God Has An Inordinate Fondness For Stars And Beetles.