Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Superstition is the poetry of life.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
