Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.
John William DraperSo great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.
John William DraperEvery movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.
John William DraperA divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man.
John William Draper