Science and Religion

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Bertrand Russell, in Science and Religion

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Bertrand Russell, in Science and Religion

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

E. Rutherford, in Science and Religion

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

George Santayana, in Science and Religion

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana, in Science and Religion

Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.

Nicolas Martin, in Life and Death and Science and Religion

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Karl Marx, in Science and Religion

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Andrew W. Mathis, in Science and Religion

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan, in Science and Religion

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

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Michel de Montaigne, in Science and Religion

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Christopher Morley, in Science and Religion

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

Mickey Mouse, in Science and Religion

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoleon, in Science and Religion

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Science and Religion

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Science and Religion

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.

Jean-Paul Kauffmann, in Science and Religion and Wealth and Poverty

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

Charles F. Kettering, in Science and Religion

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

Andy Finkel, (sometimes attributed to James Klass), in Science and Religion