There is no subject inappropriate for scientific research. Johann, we've let you fellows have a monopoly of such matters for too long. The most serious questions in the world have been left to faith or speculation. It is time for scientists to cope with them, or admit that science is no more than pebble counting.

Chapter 11, —then a man is something more than his genes! (p. 111) - Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942)