Superstitions Quotes

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The birth of science was the death of superstition. - Thomas Huxley quote.
The birth of science was the death of superstition.

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Astrology is a sickness, not a science. It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. - Maimonides quote.
Astrology is a sickness, not a science. It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. - Thomas Huxley quote.
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

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Let me make the superstititions of a nation and I do not care who makes its laws or its songs either. - Mark Twain quote.
Let me make the superstititions of a nation and I do not care who makes its laws or its songs either.
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational—but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? - Judith Viorst quote.
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational—but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.

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