Advancement Quote by Daniel D. Palmer

Religion has always persecuted science.

— Dan Brown

“Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with any new…

— Luther Burbank

“The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open…

— H.P. Lovecraft

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

— Andrew Dickson White

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

“collapsed.” The scientific words overhead evaporated, and were replaced by images of Islamic religious texts. “Revelation replaced investigation. And to this day, the Islamic…

— Dan Brown

“There was a growing conviction that religion had to become as rational as modern science.”

— Karen Armstrong

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to…

— Kathryn Bigelow

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

— Freeman Dyson

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

— John Shelby Spong

“However, the Scientific Revolution freed humankind from this conviction. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Five hundred years of science have liberated humanity from the shackles of enforced ignorance.”

— Lawrence M. Krauss