History Quote by Gary B. Ferngren

“In short, the interaction between science and religion in the Middle Ages was not an abstract encounter between bodies of fixed ideas but part…

— Gary B. Ferngren

“Popular opinion, journalistic cliché and misinformed historians notwithstanding, recent research has shown that the Middle Ages was a period of enormous advances in science,…

— James Hannam

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge in discovering…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason.…

— Ayn Rand

“The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the object; but…

— Étienne Gilson

“this attempt to control … We are talking about Western attitudes that are five hundred years old. They began at the time when Florence, Italy, was…

— Michael Crichton

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

— Barbara Tuchman

“The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the Romantics revived…

— Brian Stock

“Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“In the West, the great problem that was created for Christianity from the 17th century onward and even earlier during the Renaissance was that…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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