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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 an evolution doctrine as regards the mechanical formation of the solar system... but his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them. ...Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression."

Source : "A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom". Book by Andrew Dickson White, Vol.1, Ch.1: The Visible Universe, p. 57, 1896.

Andrew Dickson White

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“You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.”

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“Scripture would not only solve the individual and family divisions, but it would also solve the ecclesiastical confusion.”
“I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.”
“Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.”
“I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races and continents; I used to believe in every kind of magic. I began it as an investigation. I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
“If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.”
“If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something.”
“Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.”

Source : Randy Shilts (2011). “And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic”, p.496, Souvenir Press

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