Charm Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

— Aldous Huxley

... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...

— Edgar Allan Poe

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

— Philip Jose Farmer

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

— Aleister Crowley

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

— Michael Shermer

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

— Henry David Thoreau

“According to Dionysius, the Divine Darkness appears dark only because it is so dazzlingly bright-- a paradox I have attempted to understand by looking…

— Maggie Nelson

Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in…

— Arthur Eddington

[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Astronomy compel the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

— Plato

“The idea is a complicated one, as the burden falls to us to differentiate this Divine Darkness from other kinds of darknesses-- that off…

— Maggie Nelson