John William Draper Inspirational Quotes (5)

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.

Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is a very great thief of time. Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.

A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man.

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