Chance Quote by David Brewster

“When I reflect with what slow and limited supplies the stream of science hath hitherto descended to us, how difficult to be obtained by…

— Walter Scott

“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretence of understanding. We paper over the voids in our comprehension with science or…

— Mark Lawrence

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

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has…

— Walt Whitman

“The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories,…

— Antonin Artaud

“phenomenon has reappeared in a more troubling form with the holy alliance between the believers and what they can borrow or steal from the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“But in an age of intelligence, when the keys of science have unlocked the sacred shrines and hallowed vaults of sacerdotal mysteries, and modern…

— Kersey Graves

“In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed into beliefs,…

— Emil Cioran

Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on…

— James Bryant Conant

“Science is generated by and devoted to free inquiry: the idea that any hypothesis, no matter how strange, deserves to be considered on its…

— Carl Sagan

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

— Francis Parker Yockey