Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/reubvyyi · submitted 1997
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
tiny.ag/lwykthro · submitted 1997
Nature recycles itself. History repeats itself. Religion has faith in itself. Technology creates itself. Humanity loves itself.
tiny.ag/d0yrceio · submitted 1997
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
tiny.ag/cclvohiw · submitted 1997
Data without generalization is just gossip.
tiny.ag/eoc1jiyu · submitted 1997
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
tiny.ag/nslm4fyi · submitted 1997
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
tiny.ag/a0oxkbo4 · submitted 1997
I think, therefore I am.
tiny.ag/8vmi9s0a · submitted 1997
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.
tiny.ag/9rg2w8nc · submitted 1997
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
tiny.ag/f0cqgbjg · submitted 1997
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
tiny.ag/8acgevbd · submitted 1997
I predict that exact reproduction through cloning will not become popular. Too many people already find it difficult to live with themselves.
tiny.ag/lqhkxzhu · submitted 1997
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
tiny.ag/v2eioua3 · submitted 1997
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
tiny.ag/ya1hwz5x · submitted 1997
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
tiny.ag/r2mgfi6o · submitted 1997
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
Andy Finkel, (sometimes attributed to James Klass), in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/jwjgsgh3 · submitted 1997
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
tiny.ag/1qmfwyu2 · submitted 1997
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/jsu6vp9n · submitted 1997
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
tiny.ag/jwhevbgo · submitted 1997
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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
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