There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Doubt is a powerful tool. Doubt challenges my beliefs and breaks the spell of all the lies and superstitions that control my… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to… — Ulysses S Grant Copy Share Image
If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
As long as we cling to the superstition that we must look to government for money supply, instead of requiring it to… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I am certain one ought to be allowed to undo what one has done so ignorantly ! I daresay it happens to… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All sportsmen have superstitions, or at least they have routines. You look at Rafa Nadal and the way he organises his water… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people… — David Liss Copy Share Image
I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never… — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
“The reasoning man who rejects the superstitions of simpletons necessarily becomes their enemy; he must expect as much and be prepared to… — The Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no… — Olympe de Gouges Copy Share Image
There may be few instances in which the superstition that only measurable magnitudes can be important has done positive harm in the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“I give no shit to what extent they believe in superstitions and fanaticism. But I will fight till death, if their fallacious… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair; it has psychological… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
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
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
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime,… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt.… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
