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

Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

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

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

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

The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.

Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.

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

The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.

You know home isn’t really about what color your couch is or what you hang on the wall... Home is about knowing you are in the right place with the right people.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

Whatever you do not employ, you forfeit.

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

We need to deport these criminals and negotiate agreements requiring that they do their time in their own countries.

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.

The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star.

I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas.