Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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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/bayzpj4i · submitted 1997
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.
tiny.ag/qkyrww23 · submitted 1997
First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.
tiny.ag/icgo06ph · submitted 1997
Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.
tiny.ag/pjhoaeaj · submitted 1997
Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
tiny.ag/rdhwutp3 · submitted 1997
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
tiny.ag/zjwe0r42 · submitted 1997
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
tiny.ag/iulae0a9 · submitted 1997
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
John A. Locke, sometimes incorrectly attributed to John Locke, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/3ipv86qd · submitted 1998
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
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/lwrzvsfo · submitted 1997
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
tiny.ag/n7uywfhs · submitted 1997
A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.
tiny.ag/oxnkf52j · submitted 1997
All probabilities are 50%. Either a thing will happen or it won't.
tiny.ag/jsu6vp9n · submitted 1997
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
tiny.ag/r2mgfi6o · submitted 1997
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
Andy Finkel, (sometimes attributed to James Klass), in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/kixc9uy6 · submitted 1997
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of leading causes of statistics.
tiny.ag/qiy9xdhn · submitted 1997
To "be" means to be related.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/xachd7wx · submitted 1997
Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.
Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ymrr2e7m · submitted 1997
Every dogma must have its day.
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