Assumption Quote by Loren Eiseley

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific…

— Anonymous

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If these out-of date beliefs are to be called myths, then myths can be produced by the same sorts of methods and held for…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“They made up all those myths in the time before there was anything called science.”

— Jostein Gaarder

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments,…

— Karl Popper

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

— Richard Matheson

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has…

— Walt Whitman

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a…

— Stephen Hawking

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]…

— Robert Shapiro

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

— Clyde Tombaugh