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

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

Truths physical have an origin as divine as truths religious.

- 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

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

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