Science, Which Is Only Another Name For

I Have Seen Myself Lose Intolerance, Narrowness, Bigotry, Complacence, Pride And A Whole Bushel-basket Of Other Intellectual Vices Through My Contact With Nature And With Men. And When You Take Weeds Out Of A Garden It Gives You Room To Grow Flowers. So, Every Time I Lost A Little Self-satisfaction, Or Arrogance, I Could Plant Some Broadness Or Love Of My Own In Its Place, And After A While The Garden Of My Mind Began To Bloom And Be Fragrant And I Found Myself Better Equipped For My Work And More Useful To Others As A Consequence.

Those Who Would Legislate Against The Teaching Of Evolution Should Also Legislate Against Gravity, Electricity And The Unreasonable Velocity Of Light, And Also, Should Introduce A Clause To Prevent The Use Of The Telescope, The Microscope And The Spectroscope Or Any Other Instrument Of Precision Which May In The Future Be Invented, Constructed Or Used For The Discovery Of Truth.

Prayer May Be Elevating If Combined With Work, And They Who Labor With Head, Hands Or Feet Have Faith And Are Generally Quite Sure Of An Immediate And Favorable Reply.

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.

As A Scientist I Cannot Help Feeling That All Religions Are On A Tottering Foundation. None Is Perfect Or Inspired. As For Their Prophets, There Are As Many Today As Ever Before, Only Now Science Refuses To Let Them Overstep The Bounds Of Common Sense.