Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go anywhere or do anything, not to turn back, or stop… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then… — John Selden Copy Share Image
If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. — Ian Mcewan 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
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
Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth. — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
