when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Superstition requires no tests, no measurements, no proof: just faith — Mike A. Lancaster Copy Share Image
Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. — James Anthony Froude 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
I have to put my outfit on in the same order. It's sort of a superstition. The last thing I put on… — Jenny Ryan 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
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It's funny how people choose to believe in magic, miracles, fate and all sorts of superstition but not in themselves!” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali 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
“Do you sleep in a coffin?” Okay, I admit that one was a little out of line, not to mention corny. “Of… — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
“In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling… — Joseph McCabe 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
“How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Atheism is the default position in any scientific inquiry, just as a-quarkism or a-neutrinoism was. That is, any entity has to earn… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
“Take that absurd fool Elipas Levi who was supposed to be the Grand High Whatnot in Victorian times. Did you ever read… — Dennis Wheatley Copy Share Image
“All Religions have this in common, that they are an outrage to common sense for they are pieced together out of a… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
“Altho' I rarely waste time in reading on theological subjects, as mangled by our Pseudo-Christians, yet I can readily suppose Basanistos may… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been… — Gratis P. Spencer Copy Share Image
“Walpurgis Night, when, according to the belief of millions of people, the devil was abroad - when the graves were opened and… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“Superstition is thriving. Pedantry is thriving. Sectarianism is thriving. Belief is dying out. To most of your people the jinn are paranoid… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
