"As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on any human being. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torture, least of all to death, for the purpose of upholding or promoting her ideas. She presents herself unstained by cruelties and crimes. But in the Vatican-we have only to recall the Inquisition-the hands that are now raised in appeals to the Most Merciful are crimsoned. They have been steeped in blood!"

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Source : John William Draper (1875). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...”, p.11, New York, D. Appleton

John William Draper

#Science Quotes #Blood Quotes #Hands Quotes

“It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.”
“The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.”
“never adopt a strategy that you would not want your opponents to use against you”

Source : Walter Wink, Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) (1987). “Violence and nonviolence in South Africa: Jesus' third way”
“You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.”
“Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.”
“A lot of guys see the complexity of the game; I see the simplicity.”
“Stay strong. Depression lies.”
“They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .”

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