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• The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
  -- Francis Baco...
• A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Atheism...
• Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. BURKE
• Superstition is a religion of feeble minds. -- Edmund Burke
• The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626...
• Science is a body of truths which offers clear and certain knowledge about the real world and is therefore superior to traditio
  philosophy, religion, dogma, and superstition which offer shadowy knowledge about an ideal world....
• Religions are born and may die, but superstition is immortal.
• Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality
  it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery....