(109 quotes found)
“The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
Adam Smith
“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
“Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation”
John Tyndall
“Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.”
John Selden
“Superstition brings bad luck”
Paul Carvel
“There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsis”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are inimitable”
Bertrand Russell
“A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.”
George Iles
