Demon Quote by Carl Sagan

“Demon” means “knowledge” in Greek. “Science” means “knowledge” in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further.”

— Carl Sagan

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

— Carl Sagan

When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean…

— Wyndham Lewis

“In fact the English word ‘demon’ is full of a value judgement that is wrongly attributed to the words rakshasa and asura.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely…

— Terry Pratchett

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

— Herbert M. Shelton

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever…

— Albert Einstein

We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for…

— Jacob Bronowski

Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the…

— Honoré De Balzac

“Pseudoscience often relies on a witches' brew of scientific terms (e.g. "wavelength," "energy fields," "vibrations") half-baked into simplistic metaphors that do not correspond with…

— K Lee Lerner

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of…

— Imre Lakatos