Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/d0mhaxyw · submitted 1997
Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
tiny.ag/h6nrslrd · submitted 1997
There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.
tiny.ag/f1l2esy8 · submitted 1997
Theft from a single author is plagiarism. Theft from two is comparative study. Theft from three or more is research.
tiny.ag/kvmrkdxc · submitted 1997
The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
tiny.ag/qzqzxjwo · submitted 1997
There are no errors in this book, except this one.
tiny.ag/1bbjwdu7 · submitted 1997
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen Glasgow, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/m6pcdljo · submitted 1999
In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.
tiny.ag/n8mifyz3 · submitted 1997
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
tiny.ag/ejnzrzf3 · submitted 1997
My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts!
tiny.ag/hpw0adig · submitted 1997
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
tiny.ag/4t1buvks · submitted 1997
I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/fp1pwnlq · submitted 1997
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
tiny.ag/cz34szjm · submitted 1997
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/qsdfeahc · submitted 1997
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him.
tiny.ag/nslm4fyi · submitted 1997
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
tiny.ag/kbrvjlvy · submitted 1997
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
tiny.ag/hrewibls · submitted 1997
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
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.
tiny.ag/h2gnzjuo · submitted 1997
Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
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
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