Discredit Quote by Mitch Horowitz

Science is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

— Carl Sagan

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself…

— Keith Carter

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

— Jonah Goldberg

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

— Aleister Crowley

“Science is limited only to the physical (physiology) and mental (psychology) planes, but mysticism even examine the spiritual plane. At the same time, science…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against…

— Carl Sagan

“While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods for describing…

— Mike McRae

Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.

— Georges Canguilhem

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience,…

— Thomas Carlyle

Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

— Michael Helm

“Science is generated by and devoted to free inquiry: the idea that any hypothesis, no matter how strange, deserves to be considered on its…

— Carl Sagan