Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling..

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government..

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

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

As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take place without resistance. At first, the public….

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

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

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. Surel….

In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing some camphor,….

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

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force ….

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

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

Is it at all surprising that the number of those who hold the opinions of the Church in light esteem should so rapidly increase? How can that be rece….

Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher seemed to e….

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

Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the hum….

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 ….

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 ad….