“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”– Adam Smith Related Quotes “Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”– Samuel Johnson “Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.”– Black Elk “Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.”– Saint Augustine