“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.”

“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”

Will Durant book The Story of Philosophy

“Mathematical activity has taken the forms of a science, a philosophy and an art.”

George Frederick James Temple (1901–1992) British mathematician

“If superstition enters, the brain is gone.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it.”

Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer

“There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.”

Swami Narayanananda (1902–1988) Indian guru

“Physiology does not teach us how to digest, nor logic how to discourse, nor esthetics how to feel beauty or express it, nor ethics how to be good. And indeed it is well if they do not teach us how to be hypocrites; for pedantry, whether it be pedantry of logic, or of esthetics, or of ethics, is at bottom nothing but hypocrisy.”

Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher

“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

“This dialogue between the ongoing research in brain science and art continue to this day. …Such dialogues could help us explore the mechanisms in the brain that make perception and creativity possible, whether in art, the sciences, the humanities, or everyday life. In a larger sense, this dialogue could help make science part of our everyday experience.”

Eric R. Kandel (1929) American neuropsychiatrist

“As superstition is the weed of the brain, it grows perfusely, once started.”

Joseph Lewis (1889–1968) American activist