Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/btoy5umi · ★★☆☆ Fair (829 ratings) · submitted 1997
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
tiny.ag/a8ytu9a2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (962 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Barry Cantor
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/4t1buvks · ★★☆☆ Fair (1278 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/cz34szjm · ★★☆☆ Fair (1108 ratings) · submitted 1997
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/xji01bnw · ★★☆☆ Fair (225 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
tiny.ag/kfhn9y7w · ★★☆☆ Fair (195 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (468 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/36xg9wvl · ★★☆☆ Fair (374 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · submitted 1997
Logic is like the sword -- those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
tiny.ag/jw1vdna4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (928 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Guillermo Ramhorst
The truth is out there.
Chris Carter, The X Files, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/5pe8gunh · ★★☆☆ Fair (114 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
tiny.ag/ex5pqdpc · ★★☆☆ Fair (1016 ratings) · submitted 1997
Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be nullified on behalf of a single petitioner, admittedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/fsnkyl1j · ★★☆☆ Fair (578 ratings) · submitted 1997
To generalize is to be an idiot.
tiny.ag/nadtrlci · ★★☆☆ Fair (312 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every sentence that I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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/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/6hcujeiu · ★★☆☆ Fair (320 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beware the man of one book.
St. Thomas Aquinas, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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