Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends.… — Richard Dawkins
We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage. — Barack Obama
There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be… — Bertrand Russell
Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries… — Marion Woodman
There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way,… — Joseph Campbell
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence indicates an organic… — Fred Hoyle
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its… — Loren Eiseley
Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia. — Nancy Pearcey
Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time.… — Mark Twain
The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy… — Bernard Lewis
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the weak… — Paul Feyerabend
I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has… — Hannes Alfven
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe, always evolving may… — Hannes Alfven
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.… — Gilbert Ryle
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a… — D. M. Thomas
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that… — Unknown Author
Contrary to a common myth, while there are general guidelines, there is no exact 'right' way to run ... I am amazed by the many… — Grete Waitz
If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children. — Russell M. Nelson
No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution. — Robert Briffault
Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of… — Michael Denton
Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our… — Mary Midgley
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much… — Toby Lester
My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being… — Karl Popper
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths. — Karl Popper
Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth. — Joseph Campbell

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