It Is Well For People

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.

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.

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.

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.

Plants Are As Responsive To Thought As Children.