Science and Religion

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

A single fact can spoil a good argument.

Unknown, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

All probabilities are 50%. Either a thing will happen or it won't.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke, in Science and Religion

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him.

Arthur C. Clarke, in Science and Religion