Achievement Quote by George Sarton

The main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages was the creation of the experimental spirit and this was primarily…

— George Sarton

The 'Middle Ages/Dark Ages' were of course no such thing. Achievement in the Arabian crescent was sensational then.

— Bettany Hughes

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

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

“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

“...the early church fathers provide abundant evidence that gifts such as prophecy and miracles continued in their own time, even if not as abundantly…

— Craig Keener

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

— Lytton Strachey

“The disasters of the late Middle Ages tore Christianity from its roots—cultural, geographical, and linguistic. This “uprooting” created the Christianity that we commonly think…

— Philip Jenkins

“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

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I really scarce know…

— Lord Byron

“Islam brought education to all; eventually ideas to innovations and discoveries that can be witnessed by the works of many Muslim Medieval physicians and…

— Syed Ziaur Rahman

“The Middle Ages have served as a historical arena within which two schools of thought have done battle—one school accusing the medieval church of…

— Gary B. Ferngren