Lasts Quote by Andrew Dickson White Download Open image “The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.” — Andrew Dickson White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lasts Struggle Superstitions Worst
The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Superstition is the weakness of the human mind; it is inherent in that mind; it has always been, and always will be — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
“Not believing in some so-called superstitions is the biggest type of superstition!” — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the center, and… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
“The great curse of theology and ecclesiasticisim has always been their tendency to sacrifice large interests to small: Charity to Creed, Unity to Uniformity,… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it. — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
“[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.” — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind. — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature. — Buck Martinez Copy Share Image
This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started… — Maria Bello Copy Share Image
We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a… — Edith Head Copy Share Image
We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
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