Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition.
All that impugn a received religion or superstition are, by the adverse part, branded with the name of atheists.
1st Baron Verulam
A man should be religious, not superstitious.
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.
Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else.
I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I'd rather not accumulate superstitions.
To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.
I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.
See {641899} where Stanton concludes that religion as it existed then was a barrier to female emancipation.