Do Not Feed Children On Maudlin Sentimentalism

The Lure Of Happiness And The Fear Of Pain . . . Are The Two Forces Which Have Through Untold Millenniums Kept What We Usually Call Life From Destruction By The Ever Encroaching Outside Forces Of Destruction.

If We Cannot Meet Our Everyday Surroundings With Equanimity And Pleasure And Grow Each Day In Some Useful Direction, Then... Life Is On The Road Toward Misfortune, Misery And Destruction.

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.

The Idea That A Good God Would Send People To A Burning Hell Is Utterly Damnable To Me. I Don't Want To Have Anything To Do With Such A God. But While I Cannot Conceive Of Such A God, I Do Recognize The Existence Of A Great Universal Power - A Power Which We Cannot Even Begin To Comprehend And Might As Well Not Attempt To. It May Be A Conscious Mind, Or It May Not. I Don't Know. As A Scientist I Should Like To Know, But As A Man, I Am Not So Vitally Concerned.

Plants Are As Responsive To Thought As Children.