“If an unlearned adventurer in his quest for political power and perpetuation brings religion down from its celestial plane to a mundane level by converting it into a narrow political ideology, the adventurer endangers the link between God and man and man and man.”

Address to the Central Legislative Assembly (7 February 1935)

Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 12: Religion and Science.

Transhumanism (1957)
Context: What the job really boils down to is this — the fullest realization of man's possibilities, whether by the individual, by the community, or by the species in its processional adventure along the corridors of time. Every man-jack of us begins as a mere speck of potentiality, a spherical and microscopic egg-cell. During the nine months before birth, this automatically unfolds into a truly miraculous range of organization: after birth, in addition to continuing automatic growth and development, the individual begins to realize his mental possibilities — by building up a personality, by developing special talents, by acquiring knowledge and skills of various kinds, by playing his part in keeping society going.

Frontiers of Astronomy (1955), p. 1

[Hubble, Edwin, 1929, May, The Exploration of Space, Harper's Magazine, 158, 732]

Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Role of Education in Global Security (2007), p.106

1990s, The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish