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Science and Religion

156 aphorisms  ·  18 comments

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tiny.ag/2fem3dfi  ·  submitted 1997

Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune-tellers take economists seriously.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/zvh1wgvj  ·  submitted 1997

It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/hpw0adig  ·  submitted 1997

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/ejnzrzf3  ·  submitted 1997

My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts!

Unknown, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/cxkiivxs  ·  submitted 1997

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/kbrvjlvy  ·  submitted 1997

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard P. Feynman, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/kvgolwyi  ·  submitted 1998

The danger today is not so much that machines will learn to think and feel but that men will cease to do so.

Ferry, in Altruism and Cynicism and Science and Religion

tiny.ag/hrewibls  ·  submitted 1997

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

James Feibleman, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/h2gnzjuo  ·  submitted 1997

Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.

William Feather, Sr., in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/bayzpj4i  ·  submitted 1997

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

Unknown, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/rdhwutp3  ·  submitted 1997

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

Unknown, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/oxnkf52j  ·  submitted 1997

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

Unknown, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/unpjgmma  ·  submitted 1997

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/ocxoq7dr  ·  submitted 1997

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/f7dpm5bc  ·  submitted 1997

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/itemrhi6  ·  submitted 1997

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/s2rmspti  ·  submitted 1997

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/uy8bic2x  ·  submitted 1997

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/con6lmc2  ·  submitted 1997

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/t9fdfjzr  ·  submitted 1997

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Science and Religion