It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

Culture, like science, is no protection against demons.

Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

The truths of religion are unprovable; the facts of science are unproved.

It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.

It does not, in the conventional phrase, accept the conclusions of science, for the simple reason that science has not concluded. To conclude is to shut up; and the man of science is not at all likely to shut up.