Science Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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The science of calculation is indispensable for extracting roots, showing how math underpins everyday tasks. Jefferson’s quotes also link scientific progress to moral choices, saying one should sacrifice everything rather than commit an immoral act. He praises practical chemistry, likens the plough to sorcery, and ties liberty to the growth of science and virtue.
![“Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e07/thomas-jefferson-43_born_freedom-is-the-first-born-daughter-of-sc_857414.jpg)
![“I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/623/thomas-jefferson-43_admiration_i-consider-him-alexander-von-humboldt-th_211694.jpg)
![“[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08c/thomas-jefferson-43_announcing_all-religious-sects-dread-the-advance-of_1053268.jpg)
![“The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e7/thomas-jefferson-43_benevolent_the-christian-religion-when-divested-of_1371700.jpg)
![“The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids to enable such subtle bodies [air, light, &c.] to make a well-defined impression on organs as blunt as ours; that it is laudable to encourage…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a8/thomas-jefferson-43_aids_the-contradictory-experiments-of-chemist_1946606.jpg)
![“May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73f/thomas-jefferson-43_american-independenc_may-it-american-independence-be-to-the-w_931310.jpg)
![“There exists indeed an opposition to it [ building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college ] by the friends of William and Mary, which is not strong. The most restive is that of the priests of the different religious sects, who dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of day-light; and…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74e/thomas-jefferson-43_clergy_there-exists-indeed-an-opposition-to-it_137072.jpg)
