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Andrew Dickson White Quotes

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

Andrew Dickson White (1930). “History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom”, p.266, Library of Alexandria

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

Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.149, Transaction Publishers

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

On refusing permission for a team from Cornell University to visit Michigan to play a game of American football. Quoted in D Wallechinsky The People's Almanac (1975).

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

Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.123, Transaction Publishers

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1910). “SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON”

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

"Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, p. 3, 1915.