Church Quote by John William Draper

“How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible?”

John William Draper

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Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death,…

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So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced…

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A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the…

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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. Surely they cannot be much longer hidden. Injustice founded on religious rancour and national conceit cannot be perpetuated forever. The Arab has left his intellectual impress on Europe. He has indelibly written it on the…

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The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical…

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Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the…

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Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs…

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In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works. It added not a little to the exasperation against him, that he was perpetually declaiming against the insincerity, the impostures, of his persecutors - that wherever he went he found skepticism varnished over and concealed by…

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As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin…

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How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?

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Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

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