From the song "Fragile" on the album Carwreck Conversations (2004)
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Source: Hymn of the Universe
“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.”
Context: Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and shrink before independence. They feed upon worship as kings do upon flattery. That is why the cry of gods at all times is "Worship us or we perish."
Pamphlet The Devil, quoted in Gordon Stein An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism (Prometheus Books, 1980), p. 258.
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 11 “Stowaway”