Magic Quote by Thomas Szasz

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

— Kenneth Oppel

In some aspects of alternative medicine we are fighting an almost medieval belief in magic but debunking such beliefs is like telling people that…

— John Diamond

“Today, for the mass of humanity, science and technology embody 'miracle, mystery, and authority'. Science promises that the most ancient human fantasies will at…

— John Gray

“Science gives man what he needs. But magic gives him what he wants.”

— Tom Robbins

“Science is taking over magic's place in the world, and magic is fighting back.”

— Steven Walker

“There is something which unites magic and applied science while separating both from the ‘wisdom’ of earlier ages. For the wise men of old…

— C.S. Lewis

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer…

— Cyril Connolly

“some manner of cause-and-effect relationship existed between the rise of scientific knowledge and the decline of magic.”

— Neal Stephenson

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

— George Bernard Shaw

It's a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic.

— Dan Fogler

“The effort to put down Christian Science by law is one of the craziest enterprises upon which medical men waste their energies. It is…

— H.L. Mencken

“If science can’t accept that religion might be more than fairytales and magic tricks, well, that’s its own shortcoming.”

— Sean Platt