Astronomers Quote by John William Draper

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

— Anonymous

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism…

— Susan Howatch

It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of…

— Joseph Addison

“There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian intellect has…

— Anonymous

The history of Christianity would have been far happier if we all had remembered one rule of intelligence -- not to believe a thing…

— Charles Williams

Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining…

— David Bentley Hart

For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and…

— Mikhail Bakunin

The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has…

— Mark Twain

“Imagine that we could revive a well-educated Christian of the fourteenth century. The man would prove to be a total ignoramus, except on matters…

— Sam Harris

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

— Andrew Dickson White

“Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars. ”

— Rodney Stark

“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