“Science built the Academy, superstition the inquisition”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.”
Pope John Paul II
“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation”
John Tyndall
“It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening of custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving poor... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.”
Dr. Carl Sagan
