Quotes About Myth

9.?Choose heroes: the power of myth

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

Unfounded gossip can turn into sanctioned history if falls into the hands of the right storyteller.

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I don't believe in protein," I said. "I think it's a myth, like vitamins. I don't believe in nutrition, in fact. I think it's all a myth.

Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that's based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.

Can you kill a ghost by driving a knitting needle through her heart?

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

When superstitions enter the world of imagination, then intelligence and science become fiction.

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

Io, Europa, Ganimedes puer, atque Calistolascivo nimium perplacuere Iovi.(Io, Europa, the boy Ganymede, and Callisto greatly pleased lustful Jupiter.)[Marius naming Jupiter's moons]