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Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason. — Deepak Chopra

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. — Robert Green Ingersoll

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate ... Choose science. — Carl Sagan

[T]he unknown should not be a source of suspicion, fear, or retreat to superstition, but motivation to continue asking questions and seeking answers. — Neil Shubin

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition? — Shereen El Feki

Science is but one form of rationalism, while religion is the most common form of superstition. — Richard Dawkins

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs. — Kurt Vonnegut

Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that. — Arif Ahmed

The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine. — E. M. Forster

The birth of science was the death of superstition. — Thomas Huxley

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition. — Christopher Hitchens

When we see things through our fixed, false beliefs, science becomes superstition. — Debasish Mridha

If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far. — Thomm Quackenbush

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth. — Philip Jose Farmer

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. — James Anthony Froude

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. — Isaac Asimov

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. — Thomas Henry Huxley

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it. — Rick Yancey

The pagan gods are not dead, but can return to topple science with superstition and modern man with bestial pleasures that pre-date civilisation. — Richard Luckhurst

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty? — Isaac Asimov

Science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not. — David Brin

In science, progress is a fact, in ethics and politics it is a superstition. — John Gray

Liberation from superstition is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for science. — Carl Sagan

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. — Pope John Paul II

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss. — Cesar Nascimento

Meditation is a science, not a superstition. Meditation — Osho

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. — Hal Clement

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. — Adam Smith

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism. — Baha'u'llah

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition. — Jonah Goldberg

Reprogram minds into employing reason instead of faith, science instead of superstition. — Peter Boghossian

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition. — Charles Lindbergh

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. — George Bernard Shaw

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition — Steven Weinberg