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"Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness."
"The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition."
"Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with."
"Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress."
"No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary."
"Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition."
"I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot."
"I cannot say for certain that God does not exist; I think the worst thing that can be said about him is that he's a bit of an underachiever."
"The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress."
"There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition."
"Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship."
"Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself."
"There is superstition in avoiding superstition."
"You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine."
"The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition."
"I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and do everything you're not supposed to do."
"One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith."
"The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed."
"We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin."
"Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears."
