If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

There is in every village a torch- the schoolteacher; and an extinguisher: the priest.

If a black black cat crosses your path, it suggests that the animal is going somewhere.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

Superstition was with me at that moment, but it was not yet her hour for complete victory.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.

...people don't think in churches.[Noyce on what bothers him most about organized religion.]