Errors Quote by George Perkins Marsh

“She who believes that science will inescapably solve humanity’s oldest problems and radically change the human lot in this world is the one who…

— Giannis Delimitsos

“science at its best was a flower of Western culture, unbiased, apolitical, transnational, open, and progressive. It destroyed superstition and cant. It threw at…

— Thomas Hager

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

— V. S. Pritchett

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

— Thomas Huxley

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

— Christopher Hitchens

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To…

— William Wordsworth

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme…

— William James

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

— Jonah Goldberg

“Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring, science has fallen into many errors - errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than…

— Jules Verne

“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing.…

— Hypathia of Alexandria

“Science has its place in man’s search for understanding, but science and the imagination have tended to bifurcate in the modern world; only the…

— Edgar Allan Poe