The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of which to their own profession they, by a certain instinct, seem always to have perceived.
Henry Thomas BuckleSir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.
Henry Thomas BuckleThe duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should noise it abroad far and wide, utterly regardless of what opinions he shocks.
Henry Thomas Buckle