Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
121–140 (156)
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/5pe8gunh · submitted 1997
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
tiny.ag/1xhfeiwu · submitted 1997
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
tiny.ag/li6watos · submitted 1997
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/fp1pwnlq · submitted 1997
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
tiny.ag/qsdfeahc · submitted 1997
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him.
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/j1kvztac · submitted 1997
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
tiny.ag/2fem3dfi · submitted 1997
Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune-tellers take economists seriously.
tiny.ag/zvh1wgvj · submitted 1997
It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
tiny.ag/hpw0adig · submitted 1997
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
tiny.ag/ejnzrzf3 · submitted 1997
My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts!
tiny.ag/swcz0xme · submitted 1997
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, and I can singlehandedly move the world.
tiny.ag/xji01bnw · submitted 1997
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
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/o6usdizr · submitted 1997
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
tiny.ag/5udkeisb · submitted 1997
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
121–140 (156)