Civilization Quote by Billy Marshall Stoneking

“If the flame of knowledge burns out then human contemplation is incarcerated by superstitions and nonsense.”

— Shaykh Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari

If superstition enters, the brain is gone.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Superstitions are primal in nature and because they feed on instinct, having nothing but disdain for reason, they are often swift and unexpected messengers…

— Mansoor Nazeer

“superstition is what remains after the original understanding of a concept has been lost over time.”

— Freddy Silva

“...people taking the time and energy to ask about what they do not understand - I have renewed hope that society can shed its…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There is no such thing as a mind without superstition. Your belief that you have no superstition, is just another superstition.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“reprogram minds into employing reason instead of faith, science instead of superstition.”

— Peter Boghossian

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson that my…

— James D. Watson

“The rough-and-ready intellectual consensus of the mid-Twentieth Century is being pushed out by a New Superstition whose victims can find testimony on the Internet…

— Neal Stephenson

“Our tragedy is that we are running after the superstitions while we also know it, nothing is there to get.”

— Ehsan Sehgal

“It seemed to me that in this confluence of cultures we had acquired one another's superstitions without necessarily any of their comforts.”

— Yangsze Choo

Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

— Voltaire