The Idea That A Good God Would

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.

Religion Grows With The Intelligence Of Man, But All Religions Of The Past And Probably All Of The Future Will Sooner Or Later Become Petrified Forms Instead Of Living Helps To Mankind. Until That Time Comes, However, If Religion Of Any Name Or Nature Makes Man More Happy, Comfortable, And Able To Live Peaceably With His Brothers, It Is Good.

The Idea That A Good God Would Send People To A Burning Hell Is Utterly Damnable To Me - The Raving Of Insanity, Superstition Gone To Seed! I Want No Part Of Such A God.

I Am An Infidel. I Know What An Infidel Is, And That's What I Am.

Nature Is Not Personal. She Is The Compound Of All These Processes Which Move Through The Universe To Effect The Results We Know As Life And Of All The Ordinances Which Govern That Universe And That Make Life Continuous. She Is No More The Hebrew's Jehovah Than She Is The Physicist's Force; She Is As Much Providence As She Is Electricity; She Is Not The Great Pattern Any More Than She Is The Blind Chance.