Andrew Dickson White Quote

The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte,... is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (ed. Transaction Publishers, 2012) - ISBN: 9781412849135