“There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly
“Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
“If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go
“Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.