“Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition.” WantBelieveDoeCareSpaceEvolutionProgramSpeciesExcitementGravitySuperstitionsSpace Program Author:Seth MacFarlane
“If you live in a world where the population is separating itself from science and entering an age of superstition, as a marketer, selling to people who will believe anything, it is a golden age.” PeopleIfsWorldBelieveAgePopulationSellingGoldenSuperstitionsEnteringSeparatingGolden AgeMarketers Author:Daniel Henninger
“As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it is proper not to oppose them.” PeopleBelievePersonsJesusChristAtheismJesus ChristPositive AtheismSuperstitions Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. Give no quarter to that thought, whether it threatens you with fear, or tempts you with hopes. For this is Superstition and all who believe it will come in the end to the swamps, to the south and the jungles, to the far south. Part of the same error is to think that the Landlord is a real man.” PeopleThinkingMenGivingFirstsBelieveRealEndsErrorsSouthWesternSouthernQuartersSuperstitionsEasternJungleReal MenSwampsLandlord Author:C. S. Lewis
“Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe.” BelieveHumanitySafeCornersFancySuperstitionsRefuge Book:Maxims and Reflections Source: Maxims and Reflections