Absurdity Quote by Martin Gardner

Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can…

— James D. Watson

Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for evil purposes.

— Francis Lieber

I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

— Grover Cleveland

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions,…

— Helen Thompson Woolley

“Racism and discrimination are wrong as a matter of principle, not of science. Science is about what is, not what ought to be. Its…

— Nicholas Wade

Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever…

— Albert Memmi

Religion has always persecuted science.

— Dan Brown

“Why should the spread of ideas and people result in reforms that lower violence? There are several pathways. The most obvious is a debunking…

— Steven Pinker

The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.

— Ruth Benedict

“Science and religion are both guilty of committing atrocities,” King Solomon continued. “They are not evil in and of themselves, but in the hands…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Ignorance/hateracist ideasdiscrimination: this causal relationship is largely ahistorical. It has actually been the inverse relationship—racial discrimination led to racist ideas which led to ignorance…

— Ibram X. Kendi