I have endeavored to incite in the reader a spirit of inquiry, which, dissatisfied with speculative reasonings alone, should subject every idea to experiment, encourage the habit of stubborn work, and excite a search for fresh chains of evidence to complete the bridge over the bottomless unknown.
You mean religious people are not necessarily bad scientists? Astounding. Next thing you know, you are going to tell me that the scientific method was first popularized in the western world by Christians.