Rick Bright Quotes

Superstition is the poetry of life.

People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.'

You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

Superstition is the poison of the mind.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty

Most of us...are naturally more sanguine and hopeful than logic would justify. We seem to be so constituted that in the absence of any facts to go upon we are happy and self-satisfied; so that the effect of experience is continually to contract our hopes and aspirations

If superstition enters, the brain is gone.

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the unknown.

Perhaps I did use such philosophy earlier, and also wrote it, but it is nonsense all the same.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.

In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise.