If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion. The twin… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored in the… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
“And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
“If it has been revealed to man that the Almighty made him out of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion. — David Brewster Copy Share Image
Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
“It is a more rational belief that man may become a brute than that a brute may become a man; and it is an… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
![“And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? ... Can we behold unmoved the science of England, the vital principle of her arts, struggling for existence, the meek and unarmed victim of political strife? [Reviewing Charles Babbage's Book, Reflections on the Decline of Science in England (1830)]” quote by David Brewster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/01d/david-brewster-37945_babbage_and-why-does-england-thus-persecute-the_1404518.jpg)
