Tomorrow Quotes (5)
Science of to-day—the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow—the superstition of to-day.
The Book of The Damned (1919), 157
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge (1894), section 4, part 1, 26.
The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow.
In the play Dracula (1927), spoken by the character Von Helsing. In the script Dracula: the Vampire Play in Three Acts (Samuel French Inc., 1960), 25.
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.
Quoted in 'Antiseptic Christianity', book review of Lindbergh, Of Flight and Life in Time magazine, (6 Sep 1948).
See also: | Cycle (5) | Materialism (2) | Ruin (4) | Science (463) | Security (3) | Today (4) | Weapon (24)
We have to be ready to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
Pragmatism (1907, 2008), 98.