Quote by Edward Abbey
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculo

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism. – Edward Abbey

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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. – Edward Abbey

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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! – Edward Abbey

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Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. – Edward Abbey

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It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. – Proverb

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Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush. – Platen

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It is bad luck to be superstitious. – Andrew W. Mathis

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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Henry Huxley

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