In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing some camphor, portions of which had been caused to condense in very beautiful crystals on… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take place without resistance. At first, the public, and particularly its religious portion, denounced the rising doubts as atheism. — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death,… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Is it at all surprising that the number of those who hold the opinions of the Church in light esteem should so rapidly increase?… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible? — John William Draper Copy Share Image
So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works.… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years? — John William Draper Copy Share Image
