Quotes About Enlightenment

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.

Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Science is the true theology.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Science is the only savior.

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

Science is the search for truth.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.