"Is it not true that for every person……" — 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 movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?"
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John William Draper
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13 Quotes by John William Draper
John William Draper has 13 quotes on this site.
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Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.
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As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium…
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The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of…
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Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all…
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Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.
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I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight…
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As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take…
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In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening…
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Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of…
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How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in…
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Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment,…
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Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and…
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