Quote of the day
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth; some of its rivals do. That science is in some respects inhuman may be the secret of its success in alleviating human misery and mitigating human stupidity.
Christopher Dawson

Born: October 12, 1889
Died: May 25, 1970 (aged 80)
Bio: Christopher Henry Dawson was a British independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and Christendom. Dawson has been called "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century".
Known for:
- Progress and religion (1929)
- The making of Europe (1932)
- Medieval essays (1953)
- The dividing of Christendom (1965)
- The dynamics of world history (1957)