In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of the new view of Nature, and described it as "a brutal philosophy to wit, there is no God, and the ape is our Adam." ...These attacks from such eminent sources set the clerical fashion for several years.
In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, h… - Andrew Dickson White
In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, h…
- Andrew Dickson White
My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continent… - Andrew Dickson White
My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continent…
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in promoting… - Andrew Dickson White
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in promoting…
He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour. - Andrew Dickson White
He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.
The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God. - Andrew Dickson White
The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.
I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind. - Andrew Dickson White
I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.
The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promisi… - Andrew Dickson White
The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promisi…
The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst. - Andrew Dickson White
The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.
Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the center, and the Almig… - Andrew Dickson White
Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the center, and the Almig…
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