Quotes from Thomas Jefferson

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

Health is worth more than learning.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

Delay is preferable to error.

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

Freedom, the first-born of science.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.

besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.