Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/nuplbfta · ★★☆☆ Fair (279 ratings) · submitted 1997
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
Jean-Paul Kauffmann, in Science and Religion and Wealth and Poverty
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/kh5vp34e · ★★☆☆ Fair (924 ratings) · submitted 1997
The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.
tiny.ag/gnwfh5op · ★★☆☆ Fair (1525 ratings) · submitted 1999
It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.
Daisaku Ikeda, (World Tribune, Oct. 29, 1999, p. 5), in Happiness and Misery and Science and Religion
tiny.ag/ognqp9t4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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/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/fxwtpzmn · ★★☆☆ Fair (442 ratings) · submitted 1997
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
tiny.ag/8acgevbd · ★★☆☆ Fair (118 ratings) · 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/eoc1jiyu · ★★☆☆ Fair (591 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
tiny.ag/3ipv86qd · ★★☆☆ Fair (888 ratings) · submitted 1998
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
tiny.ag/o06tx1yn · ★★☆☆ Fair (78 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
tiny.ag/jlciv6fb · ★★☆☆ Fair (762 ratings) · submitted 1997
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
tiny.ag/iulae0a9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (288 ratings) · submitted 1997
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
John A. Locke, sometimes incorrectly attributed to John Locke, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/zjwe0r42 · ★★☆☆ Fair (26 ratings) · submitted 1997
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
tiny.ag/qiy9xdhn · ★★☆☆ Fair (1031 ratings) · submitted 1997
To "be" means to be related.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/xachd7wx · ★★☆☆ Fair (677 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.
Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kixc9uy6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (36 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of leading causes of statistics.
tiny.ag/r2mgfi6o · ★★☆☆ Fair (34 ratings) · 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/wgf7zuea · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
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