“The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange--all sponsored by the Church--provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
“Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians. ” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
“But it would be about tolerating dissent. Now, movies or plays, pieces of art about dissent, they always, I think, flatter the author and they flatter the audience. WOODS: Yeah. KAUFFMAN: Because, of course, all right-thinking people are on the side of the dissenter. WOODS: Right. KAUFFMAN: You know, who is being persecuted by the narrow-minded… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share
“This is in response to Thatcher’s statement that “there’s no such thing as society.” So these progressives are going to show her! Naturally, they interpret her perfectly defensible statement in the most inane and uncharitable way possible. Why, we’ll show her there really is society, by helping our fellow man! But that was exactly her point. There is no such… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share
“The biggest anachronism, usually, in a historical movie is, again, the author doesn’t want to be thought to in any way share the social conventions or whatever of the time, so there’s always this auctorial alter ego. So you have a movie set in the 1830s where you’ll have a female character who has the attitudes of a twenty-first-century screenwriter.… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share
“It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
“It’s one thing to describe someone as a voice crying in the wilderness, but that doesn’t quite capture Laurence Vance and his work. Vance… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
“Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
“The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
“The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
“(Catholic) monks taught metallurgy, introduced new crops, copied ancient texts, preserved literacy, pioneered in technology, invented champagne, improved the European landscape, provided for wanderers… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
“To be attacked by a Gore Vidal, or an H.L. Mencken, one of the great wordsmiths of American criticism, while surely unpleasant, must have… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
