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

“Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.”

“It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.”

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”

“He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His life would be full of machinery, which was the antidote to superstition ...”

“Science is the topography of ignorance.”