14+ Andrew Dickson White Quotes On

Andrew Dickson White was an American diplomat, historian, and educator. He served as a United States Senator from New York and was the co-founder of Cornell University. He was also the first United States Ambassador to Germany and a key figure in the establishment of the University of the State of New York. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Andrew Dickson White on life, love.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God. — Andrew Dickson White

The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising beginnings of a different method the method of inquiry into Nature scientifically the method which seeks not plausibilities but facts. — Andrew Dickson White

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years. — Andrew Dickson White

My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continental states France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia where the study of Continental statesmen has been almost forced upon me. — Andrew Dickson White

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind. — Andrew Dickson White

Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the center, and the Almighty sitting above the firmament the agent in moving the heavenly bodies about it with his own hands, so now a race of biological thinkers had destroyed the old idea of a Creator minutely contriving and fashioning all animals to suit the needs and purposes of man. — Andrew Dickson White

The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology. — Andrew Dickson White

The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst. — Andrew Dickson White

In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of the new view of Nature, and described it as "a brutal philosophy to wit, there is no God, and the ape is our Adam." ...These attacks from such eminent sources set the clerical fashion for several years. — Andrew Dickson White

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it. — Andrew Dickson White

For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot. — Andrew Dickson White

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour. — Andrew Dickson White

Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics. — Andrew Dickson White

Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and made the fruitful suggestion of "a perfecting principle" in Nature. With the coming in of Christian theology this tendency toward a yet truer theory of evolution was mainly stopped, but the old crude view remained. — Andrew Dickson White

Life Lessons by Andrew Dickson White

1. Andrew Dickson White's work shows us the importance of diplomacy and international cooperation in resolving conflicts and achieving progress.
2. He demonstrated the power of negotiation and compromise in resolving disputes and creating peace.
3. His legacy is a reminder that the most effective solutions are often those that involve collaboration and mutual understanding.