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...while Science Gives Us Implements To Use, Science Alone Does Not Determine For What Ends They Will Be Employed. Radio Is An Amazing Invention. Yet Now That It Is Here, One Suspects That Hitler Never Could Have Consolidated His Totalitarian Control Over Germany Without Its Use. One Never Can Tell What Hands Will Reach Out To Lay Hold On Scientific Gifts, Or To What Employment They Will Be Put. Ever The Old Barbarian Emerges, Destructively Using The New Civilization.

Divinity Is Not Something Supernatural That Ever And Again Invades The Natural Order In A Crashing Miracle. Divinity Is Not In Some Remote Heaven, Seated On A Throne. Divinity Is Love. . . . Wherever Goodness, Beauty, Truth, Love, Are-there Is The Divine.

Every Great Scientist Becomes A Great Scientist Because Of The Inner Self-abnegation With Which He Stands Before Truth, Saying: "not My Will, But Thine, Be Done." What, Then, Does A Man Mean By Saying, Science Displaces Religion, When In This Deep Sense Science Itself Springs From Religion?

Hating People Is Like Burning Down Your Own House To Get Rid Of A Rat.

He Is A Poor Patriot Whose Patriotism Does Not Enable Him To Understand How All Men Everywhere Feel About Their Altars And Their Hearthstones, Their Flag And Their Fatherland.