John William Draper Quotes

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• Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.
• As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on…
• The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive…
• Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence…
• Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.
• I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the Muhammadans.…
• As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take place without resistance. At first,…
• In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing…
• Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many…
• How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible?
• Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement…
• Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for…
• Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

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