At the time and in the country in which the present study was written, it was granted by everyone except backward people that the Jewish faith had not been refuted by science or by history.... [O]ne could grant to science and history everything they seem to teach regarding the age of the world, the origin of man, the impossibility of miracles, the impossibility of the immortality of the soul, and of the resurrection of the body, the Jahvist, the Elohist, the third Isaah, and so on, without abandoning one iota of the substance of the Jewish faith.

Only a great fool would call the new political science diabolic: it has no attributes peculiar to fallen angels. It is not even Machiavellian, for Machiavelli'…

It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high,…

[W]e believe that failing to call a spade a spade is not scientific.

'I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other …

'The exploration of both the micro and the macro cosmos, is a song to God's glory, which is reflected in everything in the universe.'

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.