Books Quote by Neal Stephenson

“superstition is what remains after the original understanding of a concept has been lost over time.”

— Freddy Silva

“Modern society must show courage and willingness to replace common superstitions with common sense.”

— Amit Kalantri

“There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by…

— Charles A. Coulombe

“If the flame of knowledge burns out then human contemplation is incarcerated by superstitions and nonsense.”

— Shaykh Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari

“...people taking the time and energy to ask about what they do not understand - I have renewed hope that society can shed its…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age…

— Helen Hayes

“Superstitions are primal in nature and because they feed on instinct, having nothing but disdain for reason, they are often swift and unexpected messengers…

— Mansoor Nazeer

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be…

— Mark Twain

“Reasoning is the cure for superstitions and bigotry.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in…

— Louis Kronenberger

“Despite, or because of their faith in miraculous cures, a strain of superstitious belief ran through this proud, emotionally distant family of intellectuals.”

— Meryle Secrest