"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition." ― Adam Smith Topic(s): Great Tags: antidote, great, science More From Adam Smith "The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals." "Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God." "All money is a matter of belief." More In Great "The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don’t think it’s funny, but you’re convinced that other people will think it is, well they won’t."― Mo Rocca "My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water."― Mark Twain "A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live."― Bertrand Russell