“It is a more rational belief that man may become a brute than that a brute may become a man; and it is an easier faith that plants and animals may dwindle down into an elemental atom, than that this… — 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
