Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/vo8qhfwa · 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/kfhn9y7w · submitted 1997
For my part, the longer I live the less I feel the need of any sort of theological belief, and the more I am content to let unseen powers go on their way with me and mine without question or distrust.
tiny.ag/iv0n7jxr · submitted 1997
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
tiny.ag/j4ksifbx · submitted 1997
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/36xg9wvl · submitted 1997
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/n0rywqhi · submitted 1997
Logic is like the sword -- those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
tiny.ag/jw1vdna4 · submitted 1997
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
tiny.ag/ol3p8lvo · submitted 1999 by Guillermo Ramhorst
The truth is out there.
Chris Carter, The X Files, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/zjwe0r42 · 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/iulae0a9 · 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/3ipv86qd · submitted 1998
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
tiny.ag/jlciv6fb · submitted 1997
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
tiny.ag/o06tx1yn · submitted 1997
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
tiny.ag/c6jkeq5x · submitted 1997
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
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
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/ya1hwz5x · submitted 1997
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
tiny.ag/jwhevbgo · submitted 1997
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
tiny.ag/jwjgsgh3 · submitted 1997
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
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