Science and Religion

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

Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

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

Isaac Asimov, 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

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

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

Mike Adams, in Science and Religion

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.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

Theft from a single author is plagiarism. Theft from two is comparative study. Theft from three or more is research.

Unknown, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation

There are no errors in this book, except this one.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts!

Unknown, in Science and Religion

Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune-tellers take economists seriously.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.

Unknown, in Science and Religion