It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Well in those parts (upcountry India) they have were-tigers, or think they have, and I must say that in this case, so… — Saki Copy Share Image
Then idiots talk…of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate… — Dave Rodgers Copy Share Image
Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I had four different colors of hats, one of which was pink. I just got on a roll with the pink hat.… — Karch Kiraly Copy Share Image
We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two.… — Benjamin Bloom Copy Share Image
Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Actually, I never tell for whom my songs are written. It's a kind of superstition! I started writing songs for not having… — Enrique Iglesias Copy Share Image
Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
It is easier to wiggle the toes than reset the biological clock, but that is just a belief that is rooted in… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
“Forget your religious superstitions built by cults and learn to love for the sake of humanity."-Stated after hearing a man use religion… — Rickey Russell Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We put God in front of terrifying things, and we knocked three times, and we took drugs and shopped too much and… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about 'Redshirts' getting onto the actual best-seller list, and doing as well as it has been doing,… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is no essential difference between sticking pins into a wax image of an enemy and burning candles in front of a… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
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