Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.

Science built the Academy, superstition the inquisition

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth