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Science and Religion

156 aphorisms  ·  18 comments

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tiny.ag/mueprtoh  ·  submitted 1997

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

tiny.ag/9dczf2nl  ·  submitted 1997

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

E. Rutherford, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/pulirvme  ·  submitted 1997

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

George Santayana, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/c47emtsn  ·  submitted 1997

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

George Santayana, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/jlciv6fb  ·  submitted 1997

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Karl Marx, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/o06tx1yn  ·  submitted 1997

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Andrew W. Mathis, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/c6jkeq5x  ·  submitted 1997

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan, in Science and Religion

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/d0yrceio  ·  submitted 1997

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Laurence J. Peter, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/cclvohiw  ·  submitted 1997

Data without generalization is just gossip.

Robert Pirsig, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/a0oxkbo4  ·  submitted 1997

I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/f0cqgbjg  ·  submitted 1997

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/eoc1jiyu  ·  submitted 1997

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/8acgevbd  ·  submitted 1997

I predict that exact reproduction through cloning will not become popular. Too many people already find it difficult to live with themselves.

Jeanne Dixon, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/fxwtpzmn  ·  submitted 1997

Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.

R. Drabek, in Love and Hate and 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.

Nicolas Martin, in Life and Death and Science and Religion