“My method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training—if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure.”

Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.

I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals.

I agree that faith is essential to success in life, but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death.

I would willingly go more primitive if it were necessary to preserve my freedom.

Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors.

I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals.

What’s the use of doing all this work if we don’t get some fun out of this?

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

Traveling around in a little tin box isolates one from the people and the atmosphere of the place in a way that I have never experienced before.

What’s the use of doing all this work if we don’t get some fun out of this?

I would willingly go more primitive if it were necessary to preserve my freedom.

It is not for you to judge the journey of another’s soul. It is for you to decide who YOU are, not who another has been or has failed to be.

Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.

To the eye of failure success is an accident.

Any other foundation will fail, but Christ is a sure and steady rock to build your life on.

George Bush says he speaks to god every day, & Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.

Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made – or failed to make.

You can only succeed. You cannot fail. Failure is impossible; it is an illusion. Nothing is a failure. Nothing. Everything moves the human story, and hence the process of evolution, forward. Everything advances you on your journey.

I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.