Astrologers with an old paltry cant and a few pothooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suff

1. Astrologers with an old paltry cant and a few pothooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world. — Jonathan Swift

2. Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. — Francis Bacon

3. It is not yet clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. — Stephen Hawking

4. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. — Henry David Thoreau

5. A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude that, if they are forcibly awakened, they still regret the loss of their pleasing vision. — Edward Gibbon

6. Skepticism is the true wisdom of man. — David Hume

7. There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. — Richard Feynman

8. The most infallible mark of ignorance is superstition. — King Stanislaus

9. . (On creationism) Although I am the last person to advocate laws against blasphemy, surely nothing could be more antireligious than to deny the evidence so clearly written in the rocks for all who have eyes to see! — Sir Arthur C. Clarke

10. Our contemplations of the cosmos stir us. There’s a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation as of a distant memory of falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries. — Carl Sagan

11. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars, but in ourselves. — Cassius, from Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”

12. It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. — W. K. Clifford

13. Faith consists in believing things because they are impossible. Faith is nothing more than submissive or deferential credulity. — Voltaire

14. A belief in the powers of certain delusive arts such as astrology has greatly retarded the progress of knowledge by engaging the attention of many of the finest geniuses that the world has ever produced. — O. Gregory

15. “You’re fine, how am I?” — One “psychic” greeting the other

16. “You’re fine, how am I?” — One “psychic” greeting the other

17. I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it. — Rousseau

18. They say that fairies take care of children, drunks, and idiots. They also say that Richard Nixon knew nothing about Watergate… — James Randi

19. All men are fools, and he who does not wish to see them must remain in his chamber and break his looking-glass. — Marquis de Sade

20. A fortune-teller is a pickpocket who is discerning enough to limit his or her depredations to gulls and simpletons. — Horace Smith

21. Isn’t a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? — Richard Dawkins

22. It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. — W. K. Clifford

23. I contend we are both atheists — I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you reject all other gods, you will understand why I reject yours as well. — Stephen F. Roberts

24. If a man wants to educate himself, he must first doubt, for in doubting he will find the truth. — Aristotle

25. Astrology boasts of great antiquity, which has nothing to do with validity. — James Randi

26. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. — Carl Sagan

27. Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science. — Edwin Powell Hubble, Astronomer

28. He who doubts nothing, knows nothing. — Nathaniel Appleton

29. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. — Adam Smith

30. Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy – doubt – be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins? — Nestelle Bovee

31. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. — Jules Henri Poincaré

32. Science is the glory of a free state. — Richelieu

33. He who doubts, and yet seeks not to be resolved, is equally unhappy and unjust. — Pascal

34. The first point of wisdom is to discern what is false; the second, to know what is true. — Lactantius

35. Skepticism is the true wisdom of man. — David Hume

36. He is a poor astrologer who pretends by the stars to point out another’s destiny and yet does not know his own. — Jaafar

37. All wisdom consists in this: not to think that we know what we do not know. — Houng-Wu

38. In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. — Thomas Huxley

39. Astrology, though an ignorant mother, has a very wise daughter — astronomy. — E. P. Day

40. Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. — Thomas Huxley

41. It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. — Bertrand Russell

42. We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress. — Richard Feynman

43. Science is intelligence in action with no holds barred. — P. W. Bridgman

44. In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary. — Bela Schick

45. The real purpose of scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don’t actually know. — Robert M. Pirsig

46. Seek simplicity and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead

47. The aim of science is not to open the door to everlasting wisdom but to set a limit on everlasting error. — Bertolt Brecht

48. In days of old When knights were bold, And science not invented, The Earth was flat And that was that, With no man discontented. — English verse

49. He who proves things by experience increases his knowledge; he who believes blindly increases his errors. — Chinese proverb

50. The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. — Oscar Wilde