I See Humanity Now As One Vast

Science, Which Is Only Another Name For Truth, Now Holds Religious Charlatans, Self-deceivers And God Agents In A Certain Degree Of Check--agents And Employees, I Mean, Of A Mythical, Medieval, Man-made God, Anthropomorphic In Constitution.

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.

As A Scientist, I Can Not Help Feeling That All Religions Are On A Tottering Foundation. None Is Perfect Or Inspired.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.

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.

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.