Western Civilization Quotes

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth canal may lead to a multitude of long term health problems.

It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.

All of Western civilization is highly influenced by the Bible, so much so that today people take for granted that our morals and our values are not common sense, but biblically based.

The only crime is pride.

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.