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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 Cannot Help Feeling That All Religions Are On A Tottering Foundation . . . I Am An Infidel Today. I Do Not Believe What Had Been Served To Me To Believe. I Am A Doubter, A Questioner, A Skeptic. 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.

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. But While I Cannot Conceive Of Such A God, I Do Recognize The Existence Of A Great Universal Power - A Power Which We Cannot Even Begin To Comprehend And Might As Well Not Attempt To. It May Be A Conscious Mind, Or It May Not. I Don't Know. As A Scientist I Should Like To Know, But As A Man, I Am Not So Vitally Concerned.

If You Violate Nature's Laws You Are Your Own Prosecuting Attorney, Judge, Jury, And Hangman.

I Have Seen Myself Lose Intolerance, Narrowness, Bigotry, Complacence, Pride And A Whole Bushel-basket Of Other Intellectual Vices Through My Contact With Nature And With Men. And When You Take Weeds Out Of A Garden It Gives You Room To Grow Flowers. So, Every Time I Lost A Little Self-satisfaction, Or Arrogance, I Could Plant Some Broadness Or Love Of My Own In Its Place, And After A While The Garden Of My Mind Began To Bloom And Be Fragrant And I Found Myself Better Equipped For My Work And More Useful To Others As A Consequence.