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My Practise As A Scientist Is Atheistic. That Is To Say, When I Set Up An Experiment I Assume That No God, Angel, Or Devil Is Going To Interfere With Its Course; And This Assumption Has Been Justified By Such Success As I Have Achieved In My Professional Career. I Should Therefore Be Intellectually Dishonest If I Were Not Also Atheistic In The Affairs Of The World. And I Should Be A Coward If I Did Not State My Theoretical Views In Public.

There Is No Great Invention, From Fire To Flying, Which Has Not Been Hailed As An Insult To Some God.

The Creator, If He Exists, Has A Special Preference For Beetles.

If Materialism Is True, It Seems To Me That We Cannot Know That It Is True. If My Opinions Are The Result Of The Chemical Processes Going On In My Brain, They Are Determined By The Laws Of Chemistry, Not Those Of Logic.

The Conservative Has But Little To Fear From The Man Whose Reason Is The Servant Of His Passions, But Let Him Beware Of Him In Whom Reason Has Become The Greatest And Most Terrible Of The Passions. These Are The Wreckers Of Outworn Empires And Civilisations, Doubters, Disintegrators, Deicides.