Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by John T. Scopes

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Last updated on December 23, 2024.

John Thomas Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925 with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools. He was tried in a case known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, in which he was found guilty and fined $100.

Teacher | August 3, 1900 - October 21, 1970

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I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]

John T. Scopes

Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory.

John T. Scopes

You don't protect any of your individual liberties by lying down and going to sleep.

John T. Scopes

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by John T. Scopes

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