Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/6dwsjbik · ★★☆☆ Fair (907 ratings) · submitted 1998 by VWTransit
If you love God, burn the church.
tiny.ag/gzduntch · ★★☆☆ Fair (884 ratings) · submitted 1997
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/ex5pqdpc · ★★☆☆ Fair (1016 ratings) · submitted 1997
Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be nullified on behalf of a single petitioner, admittedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/oru8uham · ★★☆☆ Fair (358 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (410 ratings) · 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/6hcujeiu · ★★☆☆ Fair (320 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beware the man of one book.
St. Thomas Aquinas, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/swcz0xme · ★★☆☆ Fair (238 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, and I can singlehandedly move the world.
tiny.ag/vo8qhfwa · ★★☆☆ Fair (414 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
tiny.ag/4ylvdkig · ★★☆☆ Fair (440 ratings) · submitted 1997
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
tiny.ag/kgnv53qx · ★★☆☆ Fair (3070 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (517 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (274 ratings) · submitted 1997
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
tiny.ag/lqhkxzhu · ★★☆☆ Fair (212 ratings) · submitted 1997
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
tiny.ag/b5jkxngz · ★★☆☆ Fair (335 ratings) · submitted 1997
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
tiny.ag/eq4zodra · ★★☆☆ Fair (250 ratings) · 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/ejnzrzf3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (239 ratings) · submitted 1997
My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts!
tiny.ag/f1l2esy8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (369 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (212 ratings) · submitted 1997
The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
tiny.ag/qzqzxjwo · ★★☆☆ Fair (224 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are no errors in this book, except this one.
tiny.ag/hpw0adig · ★★☆☆ Fair (240 ratings) · submitted 1997
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
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