Carl Sagan Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Superstitions Quotes

If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

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No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

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Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

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Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!

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To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.

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No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

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No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

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We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

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One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

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When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

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It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

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Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

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