Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/hvtkmq8l · submitted 1997
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/wgyfgj8m · submitted 1997
Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Heschel, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ifr4pyih · submitted 1997
Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
Thomas Hobbes, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/gv46ldbw · submitted 1997
This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.
tiny.ag/ymof9a0l · submitted 1997
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
tiny.ag/xji01bnw · submitted 1997
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
tiny.ag/vcqklkqm · submitted 1997
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
tiny.ag/fed8pqej · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
tiny.ag/beioj52g · submitted 1997
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion -- i.e., none to speak of.
tiny.ag/pqsikg5n · submitted 1997
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
tiny.ag/3ipv86qd · submitted 1998
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
tiny.ag/jlciv6fb · submitted 1997
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
tiny.ag/o06tx1yn · submitted 1997
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
tiny.ag/c6jkeq5x · submitted 1997
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
tiny.ag/b4tuds1y · submitted 1997
There's always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
Henry Louis Mencken, in Altruism and Cynicism and Science and Religion
tiny.ag/jwjgsgh3 · submitted 1997
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
tiny.ag/8vmi9s0a · submitted 1997
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.
tiny.ag/v2eioua3 · submitted 1997
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
tiny.ag/9rg2w8nc · submitted 1997
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
tiny.ag/jwhevbgo · submitted 1997
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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