The Conservative Has But Little To Fear

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

It Seems To Me Immensely Unlikely That Mind Is A Mere By-product Of Matter. For If My Mental Processes Are Determined Wholly By The Motions Of Atoms In My Brain I Have No Reason To Suppose That My Beliefs Are True. They May Be Sound Chemically, But That Does Not Make Them Sound Logically. And Hence I Have No Reason For Supposing My Brain To Be Composed Of Atoms.

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.

It Wasn't Until I Had Performed By First Autopsy That I Realized That Even The Drabest Human Exteriors Could Contain The Most Beautiful Viscera. After That, I Would Console Myself For The Plainness Of My Fellow Bus-riders By Dissecting Them In My Imagination.

While I Do Not Suggest That Humanity Will Ever Be Able To Dispense With Its Martyrs, I Cannot Avoid The Suspicion That With A Little More Thought And A Little Less Belief Their Number May Be Substantially Reduced.