There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life

If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction

The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country

As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty five years that word is failure

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.