Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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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/uoqbw63r · submitted 1997
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/ebp3wveo · submitted 1997
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
tiny.ag/lqhkxzhu · submitted 1997
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
tiny.ag/3ipv86qd · submitted 1998
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
tiny.ag/jlciv6fb · submitted 1997
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
tiny.ag/o06tx1yn · submitted 1997
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
tiny.ag/c6jkeq5x · submitted 1997
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
tiny.ag/b4tuds1y · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/d0mhaxyw · submitted 1997
Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
tiny.ag/usy6fzdr · submitted 1997
I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.
tiny.ag/losztnwc · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/con6lmc2 · submitted 1997
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
tiny.ag/kvy1ngjh · submitted 1997
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
tiny.ag/hmdnaus7 · submitted 1997
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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.
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.
tiny.ag/qzqzxjwo · submitted 1997
There are no errors in this book, except this one.
tiny.ag/f7dpm5bc · submitted 1997
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
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.
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