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November 07, 2019

6 quotes: Albert Einstein on science, religion, and liberty

Albert Einstein became the most celebrated scientist in history 100 years ago today. “Revolution in Science, New Theory of the Universe, Newtonian Ideas Overthrown,” read a headline in The Times of London published on November 7, 1919, making the introverted scientist a global figure. Continue Reading...

October 14, 2019

6 quotes: John Henry Newman on Church, state, and economics

John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint on Sunday. The former leader of the Anglican Church’s Oxford Movement – who became a cardinal in 1879, 34 years after his conversion – became one of the most influential Christian writers of his day. Continue Reading...

May 06, 2019

7 quotations: John Lukacs on capitalism, racism, bureaucracy, and faith

John Lukacs, the renowned historian who fled communist tyranny in his native Hungary in 1946, passed away this morning at the age of 95. Lukacs was born Lukacs Janos Albert on January 31, 1924, to a Roman Catholic father and a Jewish mother and raised in the Catholic faith. Continue Reading...

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