Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

The more people are exposed to science, the more we will move away from superstition.

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

The Islam Ataturk professed contained nothing contrary to reason and progress.

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

Only by ignorance is science threatened.

We should not be a party that is opposed to science.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

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

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

In those parts of the world where learning and science have prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.