Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the center, and the Almighty sitting above the firmament the agent in moving the heavenly bodies about it with… — 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
