Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.

I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed,…

— Francis Crick

“What is truly terrifying is the exact knowledge of what will come and being unable to save yourself from it. Grabbing”

— Roxane Gay

Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

— Napoleon Hill

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man

— George Puttenham

Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.

— Anonymous

“It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with…

— Álvaro de Campos

Biologists now pretty universally regard vitalism as a vestige of a bygone age.

— Elliott Sober

“We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of our technical…

— William Barrett

“It is of course no secret to contemporary philosophers and psychologists that man himself is changing in our violent century, under the influence, of…

— Seraphim Rose

“Signs imply ways of living, possibilities of existence, they are the symptoms of an overflowing (jaillissante) or exhausted (épuisée) life. But an artist cannot…

— Gilles Deleuze

Remember, in the heyday of vitalism, people said that when all the data are in about cells and how they work, we will still…

— Patricia Churchland

As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its…

— Thomas Paine

It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

— Criss Jami