"Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology."
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

"The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher."
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

"The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli."
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

"Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory."
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

"Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.'"
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

"Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians. "
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

"It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law."
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

"The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. "
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

"Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order."
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

"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.

"The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church."
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

"(Catholic) monks taught metallurgy, introduced new crops, copied ancient texts, preserved literacy, pioneered in technology, invented champagne, improved the European landscape, provided for wanderers of every stripe, and looked after the lost and shipwrecked."
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

"Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason and observation, it ought to be possible to discover these principles.

These were the crucial ideas that explain why science arose in Christian Europe and no where else.
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— Rodney Stark

"Slavery ended in medieval Europe only because the church extended its sacraments to all slaves and then managed to impose a ban on the enslavement of Christians (and of Jews). Within the context of medieval Europe, that prohibition was effectively a rule of universal abolition. "
— Rodney Stark

"That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships--although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies. "
— Rodney Stark

"Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars. "
— Rodney Stark

"Because God is a rational being and the universe is his personal creation, it necessarily has a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting increased human comprehension. This is the key to many intellectual undertakings, among them, the rise of science. "
— Rodney Stark

"Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Do not think that we say that these things are only to be received by faith, but also that they are to be asserted by reason. For indeed it is not safe to commit these things to bare faith without reason, since assuredly truth cannot be without reason."
— Clement of Alexandria

"Reason is a thing of God, inasmuch as there is nothing which God the maker of all has not provided, disposed, ordained by reason--nothing which He has not willed should be handled and understood by reason. "
— Quintus Tertullian

"Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth."
— Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła)

"''If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.'' "
— John C. Wright

"So much enthusiasm about the non-existence of God is somewhat bewildering, as no one appears to be nearly as excited about a similar absence of belief in unicorns, vampires, werewolves, astrology, nation-building, or the Labor Theory of Value. Nor is anyone dedicating much of their time to writing books and giving speeches at universities and conferences with the avowed goal of convincing others not to believe in them either.
~Vox Day"
— Vox Day

"Beauty will save the world.
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— Theodore Dostoyevsky

"I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all."
— Ralph B. Perry