Edges Quote by V. S. Pritchett Download Open image “A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.” — V. S. Pritchett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Edges Giving Science Storytelling Superstitious Tales
The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The more people are exposed to science, the more we will move away from superstition. — Rakesh Sharma Copy Share Image
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson that my… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really… — Jess Weixler Copy Share Image
What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I've been in real estate for a long time and I always try to stay on the edge. I'm really excited about the partnership… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death. — Toshihiko Seko Copy Share Image
I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
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