"I do not believe in belief. But this is an age of faith and there are so many militant creeds that in self-defense one has to formulate a creed of one's own. Tolerance, good temper, and sympathy are no longer enough in a world which is rent by religions and racial persecution, in a world where ignorance rules and science plays the subservient pimp. Tolerance, good temper, and sympathy-they are what matter, really, and if the human race is not to collapse they must come to the front before long." --E. M. Forster
"Every fact of science was once damned. Every innovation was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced