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Andrew Dickson White was an American diplomat and educator, born on November 7, 1832, and died on November 4, 1918. He is known for his contributions to American foreign policy and his passion for education.

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Famous Andrew Dickson White Quotes

“Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.”

Men Made Said Country He Man Made It Pregnant Biographies

Book:SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

Source: SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

“The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his studies, his reading, his professors, his associates, all were combined to keep from him any results of observation or reflection save those prescribed: probably, of all means for stifling healthy and helpful thought, a theological seminary, as then conducted whether Catholic or Protestant, Jewish or Mohammedan, was the most perfect.”

“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.”

Source: A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods

“I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.”

Men Sports Four Wind Hundred Miles Thirty Bags Motivational Sports Permit Agitate

Author: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.”

Knows Men Form Law Religion Causes Natural Theory Bases Theology Attributes

Book:A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods

Source: A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods