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

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

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

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

- Andrew Dickson White

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

- 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…

- Andrew Dickson White

The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wi…

- Andrew Dickson White

The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.

- 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…

- Andrew Dickson White