13 Quotes by John William Draper

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

As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take place without resistance. At first, the public, and particularly its religious portion, denounced the rising doubts as atheism.

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

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.