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The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.
Science is the only savior.
A flower is an educated weed.
We must return to nature and nature's god.
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
Plants are as responsive to thought as children.
Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.
Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.
Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.
I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am.
Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.
Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.
Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.
All my work has come about through a change in my earlier opinion of religion.
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.
Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
The clear light of science teaches us that we must be our own saviors, if we are to be found worth saving.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.
Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.
What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.
Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
However, 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.
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.
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
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.
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.
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.
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.
Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley, he has not even the oratorical skill of Bryan. The whole movement is based on the poor whites of the south.
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the fear of an after-world. Never was a child made more noble and good by the fear of a hell.
Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.
Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.
In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.
The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith belonging to the past and a living, growing ever-advancing science belonging to the future.
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.
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.
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.
If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man should refrain from torturing them for the mere possibility of obtaining some knowledge which he believes may be to his own interest.
