--- title: "4 Adrian Desmond Quotes - Famous Historian" description: "historian of science... | Adrian John Desmond is an English writer on the history of science and author of books about Charles Darwin." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b190/author-adrian-desmond-67189.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Adrian Desmond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b190/author-adrian-desmond-67189.jpg) # Adrian Desmond (1947) Historian **4** quotes in **51** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Adrian Desmond is a historian. ## Quick Facts About Adrian Desmond Born January 1, 1947 Profession Historian ## About Adrian Desmond historian of science... \| Adrian John Desmond is an English writer on the history of science and author of books about Charles Darwin. ## Quotes by Adrian Desmond > [ Perhaps the greatest lesson \[Huxley\] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-desmond/perhaps-the-greatest-lesson-huxley-learned-from-reading-carlyle-was/) Adrian Desmond [Absence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36c/adrian-desmond-67189_absence_perhaps-the-greatest-lesson-huxley-learn_122337.jpg) > [Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-desmond/science-was-tearing-through-the-fine-spun-ecclesiastical-cobwebs-to/) Adrian Desmond [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40f/adrian-desmond-67189_admirable_science-was-tearing-through-the-fine-spu_304135.png) > [ A man got up \[after one of Huxley's 'sermons'\] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-desmond/a-man-got-up-after-one-of-huxley-s-sermons-and-said-they-had-never/) Adrian Desmond [Creeds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creeds/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/190/adrian-desmond-67189_creeds_a-man-got-up-after-one-of-huxley-s-sermo_615918.png) > [William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-desmond/william-henry-flower-the-anglican-too-praised-evolution-as-a/) Adrian Desmond [Christianity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christianity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38a/adrian-desmond-67189_christianity_william-henry-flower-the-anglican-too-pr_2439231.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-desmond/#itemlist", "name": "Adrian Desmond Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Adrian Desmond" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-desmond/perhaps-the-greatest-lesson-huxley-learned-from-reading-carlyle-was/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36c/adrian-desmond-67189_absence_perhaps-the-greatest-lesson-huxley-learn_122337.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36c/adrian-desmond-67189_absence_perhaps-the-greatest-lesson-huxley-learn_122337.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36c/adrian-desmond-67189_absence_perhaps-the-greatest-lesson-huxley-learn_122337.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive…” — Adrian Desmond", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. 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