In "Grading the Races," Teller discusses an essay by the African American atheist and historian John G. Jackson (1907-93) called "Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization."
with a bigger brain size compared to the black race, which he labeled genetically inferior, always citing scientific justification.
Not even the most mystical of modern physicists can deny this.The whole plea for a metaphysical "physics" rests on the erroneous idea that since we cannot predict certain activities far down in the atom, materialism is ruled out.
How small these individual parts are may be visualized from the fact that the hydrogen atom alone weighs only 1.662x10-24 grammes, while the nucleus itself has a diameter of only a millionth of a millionth of an inch.In his essay "Miscellaneous Notes"[6] in Essays of an Atheist, Teller ridicules mathematics as a way to become wiser in itself: DOES mathematics, the science of accurate calculation, lead to accuracy in thinking?
Kepler "peopled the planets with souls and genii", and put "an astrological interpretation on the disappearance of the brilliant star of 1572, which Tycho had observed."
A man who has invented a bomb-sight or calculated an eclipse may, for all we know, be eating his Savior at this minute, or be carrying a St. Christopher medal on the steering wheel of his car.