Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

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.

Edward Gibbon

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

Bill Maher

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

Blaise Pascal

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.

Baha'u'llah

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

Baruch Spinoza

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

Celia Green

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

Doris Lessing

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

Andre Malraux

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

Edward Gibbon

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

Charles Simic

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

Arthur Keith

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

Jill Tarter

Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.

George Catlin

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.

Chris Patten

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

Ian McDonald

The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.

Peter Singer

If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.

Kathryn Hahn

You find your tribe and you stick with them.

Kevin Doll

We often see that in this type of primitive operation.

James Clarke

It doesn't really shout out tyrannosaurus when you first see it. That's because it is really a primitive tyrannosaur.

Ken Hitchcock

There were some long games. There was some city-by-city emotion. There was a lot of anger. There was a lot of high-spirited competition. It was down to its most primitive level.