The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange--all sponsored by the Church--provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Stichwörter: science civilization catholicism western



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Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Stichwörter: science moon catholicism craters jesuit



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In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

David Hume

Stichwörter: wisdom science certainty doubt reason belief facts skepticism reasoning evidence proportion assurance degrees



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Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Stichwörter: science western-civilization catholicism geology



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The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Stichwörter: science western-civilization catholicism egyptology



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The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Stichwörter: science western-civilization catholicism



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Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Stichwörter: science western-civilization catholicism



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Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Stichwörter: science western-civilization catholicism seismology



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Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.

Gustave Flaubert

Stichwörter: science



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Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius ought to be huge, those of Mars middle-sized, those of Venus very small. Unless it is the same everywhere. There are businessmen, police up there; people trade, fight, dethrone their kings.
Some shooting stars suddenly slid past, describing a course in the sky like the parabola of a monstrous rocket.
‘My Word,’ said Bouvard, ‘look at those worlds disappearing.’
Pecuchet replied: ‘If our world in its turn danced about, the citizens of the stars would be no more impressed than we are now. Ideas like that are rather humbling.’
‘What is the point of it all?’
‘Perhaps there isn’t a point.’
‘Yet…’ and Pecuchet repeated the word two or three times, without finding anything more to say.

Gustave Flaubert

Stichwörter: science life earth outer-space astronomy



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