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“Astronomy is what we have now instead of theology. The terrors are less, but the comforts are nil’.”

— Brian Cox

“The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“it is clear that in the study of beings this aim can be fulfilled by us perfectly only through successive examinations of them by…

— George F. Hourani

“And just as the conclusions of the astronomers would have been vain and uncertain if not founded on observations of the seen heavens, in…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It seemed that every city and town they'd passed through on the way to Herath venerated different gods and spirits. How to know which…

— Alec Hutson

“If there is one fable, which would seem entitled to escape the analysis, which we have undertaken of religious poems and sacred legends, by…

— Anonymous

“--perhaps monsters were misunderstood gods; deities with plans too grand for humans; a phantom of evil that drank from the roots of good.”

— Roshani Chokshi

“This story twists the ancient myths we grow up with,” Berger says, “where what the reader knows about the Olympian gods, or thinks he…

— David Berger

“There are no Gods in this world. Only monsters. And I'm not talking about vampires”

— Shelley Crowley

“So the mathematician and the artist are companioned in the same dark, and do obeisance to the same gods.”

— Howard Jacobson

“Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.”

— Karl Marx

“Once upon a time, there was only darkness, and there were monsters vast as worlds who swam in it. They loved the darkness because…

— Laini Taylor