Church Quote by John William Draper

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

— 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

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

— John William Draper

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

— John William Draper

I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the…

— John William Draper

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

— John William Draper

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

— John William Draper

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

— John William Draper

In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works.…

— John William Draper

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

— John William Draper

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

— John William Draper

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

— John William Draper