Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/fp1pwnlq · submitted 1997
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
tiny.ag/qsdfeahc · submitted 1997
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him.
tiny.ag/li6watos · submitted 1997
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/6hcujeiu · submitted 1997
Beware the man of one book.
St. Thomas Aquinas, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/swcz0xme · submitted 1997
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, and I can singlehandedly move the world.
tiny.ag/vo8qhfwa · submitted 1997
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
tiny.ag/1xhfeiwu · submitted 1997
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
tiny.ag/5pe8gunh · submitted 1997
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
tiny.ag/ol3p8lvo · submitted 1999 by Guillermo Ramhorst
The truth is out there.
Chris Carter, The X Files, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/jw1vdna4 · submitted 1997
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
tiny.ag/gzduntch · submitted 1997
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/bayzpj4i · submitted 1997
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.
tiny.ag/lwrzvsfo · submitted 1997
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
tiny.ag/qswhxoon · submitted 1997
The truth is more important than the facts.
tiny.ag/qrtof0ik · submitted 1997
A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
tiny.ag/pbfz1bc0 · submitted 1997
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion; rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/jd4gcyqf · submitted 1997
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
tiny.ag/e8syltpb · submitted 1997
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
tiny.ag/4rgim10d · submitted 1997
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
tiny.ag/n7uywfhs · submitted 1997
A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.
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