Science and Religion

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

Mickey Mouse, in Science and Religion

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Christopher Morley, in Science and Religion

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Michel de Montaigne, in Science and Religion

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

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

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan, in Science and Religion

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Andrew W. Mathis, in Science and Religion

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Karl Marx, in Science and Religion

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

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

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

Charles F. Kettering, in Science and Religion

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

Andy Finkel, (sometimes attributed to James Klass), in Science and Religion

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of leading causes of statistics.

Fletcher Knebel, in Science and Religion

To "be" means to be related.

Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.

Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Unknown, in Science and Religion

Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

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

Unknown, in Science and Religion

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Werner von Braun, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure