Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and made the fruitful suggestion of "a perfecting principle" in Nature. With the coming in of Christian theology this… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the center, and… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
“The great curse of theology and ecclesiasticisim has always been their tendency to sacrifice large interests to small: Charity to Creed, Unity to Uniformity,… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it. — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
“[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.” — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind. — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and made the… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but we are… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
“Living in filth was regarded by great numbers of holy men, who set an example to the Church and to society, as an evidence… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
