Science and Religion

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.

P. L. Berger, in Science and Religion

The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.

Merrick Furst, in Science and Religion

In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Science and Religion

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

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Samuel Goldwyn, in Science and Religion

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

Stephen Hawking, in Science and Religion

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

Friedrich Hegel, in Science and Religion

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion -- i.e., none to speak of.

Robert A. Heinlein, in Science and Religion

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

Robert A. Heinlein, in Science and Religion

Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.

Abraham Heschel, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

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.

Woody Allen, in Science and Religion

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.

Woody Allen, in Science and Religion

Beware the man of one book.

St. Thomas Aquinas, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, and I can singlehandedly move the world.

Archimedes, in Science and Religion

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.

Aristotle, in Science and Religion

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Isaac Asimov, in Science and Religion

Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.

Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, in Science and Religion

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

Lyman Beecher, in Law and Politics and Science and Religion

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

Mike Adams, in Science and Religion