John William Draper

Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of…

— John William Draper

Is it at all surprising that the number of those who hold the opinions of the Church in light esteem should so…

— John William Draper

How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible?

— John William Draper

So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had…

— John William Draper

A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising…

— John William Draper

I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations…

— John William Draper

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate…

— John William Draper

Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in…

— John William Draper

Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes…

— John William Draper

In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most…

— John William Draper

As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict…

— John William Draper

How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?

— John William Draper

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

— John William Draper

Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised…

— John William Draper

In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see…

— John William Draper

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending…

— John William Draper

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

— John William Draper

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

— John William Draper

As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take place without…

— John William Draper

Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher…

— John William Draper