This might be true, but I would be sceptical if you haven't read the primary sources. There's a website called Atheist History Blog which questions claims of th

This might be true, but I would be sceptical if you haven't read the primary sources. There's a website called Atheist History Blog which questions claims of there being a historical conflict between science and religion. Many stories of "martyrs for science" are often not as straightforward as they seem (e.g. Galileo, Giordano Bruno, Hypatia for some *@%$ing reason, etc.). Also, accounts of such a conflict usually blame the Catholic church: See the largely made up story around Christopher Columbus (written in largely protestant America circa 1800) for an example of this. I think the lesson here is to be as sceptical on matters of history as on mathematics and science.