And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of wate…

- David Brewster

Truths physical have an origin as divine as truths religious.

- David Brewster

There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never fail to …

- David Brewster

If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored in the temple of scienc…

- David Brewster

A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the m…

- David Brewster

Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion.

- David Brewster

Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started i…

- David Brewster

Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.

- David Brewster