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

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

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

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.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she's having her own way. And second let her have it.

You can always tell a real friend when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.

The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.

I love the sea with its impenetrable fathoms, its wash and undertow, and rasp of shingle sucked anew.

Was the leaker in question, Ed Snowden, was he a traitor?

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.

Man has created death.