Bigs Quote by Philip Jose Farmer

Science is the topography of ignorance.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

— Adam Smith

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

— Christopher Hitchens

The more people are exposed to science, the more we will move away from superstition.

— Rakesh Sharma

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

— Johan Huizinga

Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

— James Clerk Maxwell

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

— James Anthony Froude

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance…

— Jerry A. Coyne

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

“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan