[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
You should never cut your hair on Friday the 13th, as it results in a death in the family. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“superstition is what remains after the original understanding of a concept has been lost over time.” — Freddy Silva Copy Share Image
Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you were to leave the calendar on Friday the 13th, you will be killed by a witch the very next day.w — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I thought that I'd never become a UFC fighter if I bought a ticket to go to the UFC. I don't know… — Renato Moicano Copy Share Image
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“It's not like I got caught masturbating, for chrissake; she doesn't know me, why the hell would she care if I'm superstitious?… — S.D. Perry Copy Share Image
“[On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss] [Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gottingen University, that he… — Gerhard Falk Copy Share Image
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“only while under the dominion of fear do men fall a prey to superstition; that all the portents ever invested with the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I have been around long enough to discount most superstitions for what they are: I was around when many of them began… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“A superstitious belief which embraces an error keeps the possibility open that the truth may come to arouse it; but when the… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I felt grateful to Ataturk that my parents were so well educated, that they weren't held back by superstition or religion, that… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Blind belief is a comfort; it is the frame that puts the rest of the world into context. It allows us to… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
“History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions;… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“The name of Robert G. Ingersoll is in the pantheon of the world. More than any other man who ever lived he… — Eugene Victor Debs Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Changing the spelling of one's name to ensure success, performing rituals for good luck, wearing colored gem stones for success in business… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
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