Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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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/fp1pwnlq · submitted 1997
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
tiny.ag/li6watos · submitted 1997
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/1xhfeiwu · submitted 1997
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
tiny.ag/6dwsjbik · submitted 1998 by VWTransit
If you love God, burn the church.
tiny.ag/icgo06ph · submitted 1997
Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.
tiny.ag/pjhoaeaj · submitted 1997
Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
tiny.ag/qkyrww23 · submitted 1997
First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.
tiny.ag/n7uywfhs · submitted 1997
A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.
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/kbrvjlvy · submitted 1997
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
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/bayzpj4i · submitted 1997
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.
tiny.ag/rdhwutp3 · submitted 1997
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
tiny.ag/oxnkf52j · submitted 1997
All probabilities are 50%. Either a thing will happen or it won't.
tiny.ag/lwrzvsfo · submitted 1997
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
tiny.ag/4rgim10d · submitted 1997
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
tiny.ag/e8syltpb · submitted 1997
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
tiny.ag/h2gnzjuo · submitted 1997
Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
tiny.ag/hrewibls · submitted 1997
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
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