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,…

- John William Draper

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

- John William Draper

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 …

- 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 Muhammadans. Surel…

- John William Draper

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

- 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, fo…

- John William Draper

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

- 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 c…

- John William Draper

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

- John William Draper