Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
– Adam Smith
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- He had a skull and crossbones label on him, but I drank his poison nevertheless and loved it; now I needed an antidote. – Genna Rulon
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- The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison. – Theodore Sturgeon
- The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness… we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work. – Gordon T Smith
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- Following religious principles because you fear the consequences isn’t faith-¦. It’s superstition. – T Rafael Cimino
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- Belief in the causal nexus is superstition. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
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- The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine. – EM Forster
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- Just as Adam produced Woman without a woman, the Virgin produced the Second Adam without a man. – Atom Tate
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