Science Is The Only Savior.

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 . . . I Am An Infidel Today. I Do Not Believe What Had Been Served To Me To Believe. I Am A Doubter, A Questioner, A Skeptic. 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.

Do Not Feed Children On A Maudlin Sentimentalism Or Dogmatic Religion; Give Them Nature. Let Their Souls Drink In All That Is Pure And Sweet. Rear Them, If Possible, Amid Pleasant Surroundings ... Let Nature Teach Them The Lessons Of Good And Proper Living, Combined With An Abundance Of Well-balanced Nourishment. Those Children Will Grow To Be The Best Men And Women. Put The Best In Them By Contact With The Best Outside. They Will Absorb It As A Plant Absorbs The Sunshine And The Dew.

Several Of My Young Acquaintances Are In Their Graves Who Gave Promise Of Making Happy And Useful Citizens And There Is No Question Whatever That Cigarettes Alone Were The Cause Of Their Destruction. No Boy Living Would Commence The Use Of Cigarettes If He Knew What A Useless, Soulless, Worthless Thing They Would Make Of Him.

Science . . . Has Opened Our Eyes To The Vastness Of The Universe And Given Us Light, Truth And Freedom From Fear Where Once Was Darkness, Ignorance And Superstition. There Is No Personal Salvation, Except Through Science.