Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/oru8uham · submitted 1997
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
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/b5jkxngz · submitted 1997
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/j4ksifbx · submitted 1997
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
tiny.ag/iv0n7jxr · submitted 1997
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
tiny.ag/eq4zodra · submitted 1997
When they broke open molecules, they found they were filled with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found they were filled with explosions.
tiny.ag/wultb9vd · submitted 1997
Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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/qzqzxjwo · submitted 1997
There are no errors in this book, except this one.
tiny.ag/kvmrkdxc · submitted 1997
The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
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/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/zvh1wgvj · submitted 1997
It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
tiny.ag/pjhoaeaj · submitted 1997
Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
tiny.ag/2fem3dfi · submitted 1997
Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune-tellers take economists seriously.
tiny.ag/qkyrww23 · submitted 1997
First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.
tiny.ag/icgo06ph · submitted 1997
Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.
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