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Quote by John Burroughs
Science has done more for the development of western civilization

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. – John Burroughs

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When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. – John Burroughs

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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. – John Burroughs

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In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it. – Phillip E. Johnson

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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. – Wilhelm Reich

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You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. – Imogen Cunningham

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The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does. – Lewis Mumford

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