Luther Burbank Quotes

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

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

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

Her light shall pierce through the darkness of ignorance and man’s oppression.

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

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed If they had taken from the bible only that which is GOOD and thrown away the wicked and absurd If temple domes had been observatories If priests had been philosophers If missionaries had taught useful arts instead of bible lore If astrology had been astronomy If the black arts had been chemistry If superstition had been science If religion had been humanity The world then would be a heaven filled with love, and liberty and joy

The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.

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

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward truth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

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

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

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.

Apollo was designed not to conquer enemies but to conquer ignorance.

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

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural …. We can live our lives without the constant fear that we have offended this or that deity who must be placated by incantation or sacrifice, or that we are at the mercy of devils or the Fates. With increasing knowledge, the intellectual darkness that surrounds us is illuminated and we learn more of the beauty and wonder of the natural world.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

When I contemplate the immense advances in sciences and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches

Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of Religion, that we shall discover Truth, Reason, and Morality. Religion diverts us from the causes of evils, and from the remedies which nature prescribes; far from curing, it only aggravates, multiplies, and perpetuates them.