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Andrew White
(7 Nov 1832 - 4 Nov 1918)
American historian, educator and diplomat who, with Ezra Cornell, cofounded Cornell University (1865), and was its first president (1866-1885). His major work, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, was published in at least six languages during his lifetime.
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Science Quotes by Andrew White (1 quote)
Darwin's Origin of Species had come into the theological world like a plough into an ant-hill. Everywhere those thus rudely awakened from their old comfort and repose had swarmed forth angry and confused. Reviews, sermons, books light and heavy, came flying at the new thinker from all sides.
— Andrew White
From The Warfare of Science and Theology in Christendom (1898), 70.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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