Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/xyhjnkct · submitted 1997
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
tiny.ag/4ylvdkig · submitted 1997
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
tiny.ag/kgnv53qx · submitted 1997
Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.
Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/b5jkxngz · submitted 1997
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
tiny.ag/9rg2w8nc · submitted 1997
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
tiny.ag/8vmi9s0a · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/v2eioua3 · submitted 1997
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
tiny.ag/jwjgsgh3 · submitted 1997
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
tiny.ag/jwhevbgo · submitted 1997
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
tiny.ag/ya1hwz5x · submitted 1997
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
tiny.ag/1qmfwyu2 · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/nuplbfta · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/ognqp9t4 · submitted 1997
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
tiny.ag/kh5vp34e · submitted 1997
The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.
tiny.ag/gnwfh5op · submitted 1999
It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.
Daisaku Ikeda, (World Tribune, Oct. 29, 1999, p. 5), in Happiness and Misery and Science and Religion
tiny.ag/wgf7zuea · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
tiny.ag/hvtkmq8l · submitted 1997
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ymof9a0l · submitted 1997
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
tiny.ag/ifr4pyih · submitted 1997
Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
Thomas Hobbes, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/gv46ldbw · submitted 1997
This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.
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