Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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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/t6xaogci · ★★☆☆ Fair (576 ratings) · submitted 1997
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
tiny.ag/mrm8ujlt · ★★☆☆ Fair (870 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.
Godfried Bomans, Buitelingen II, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/oy08nxhf · ★★☆☆ Fair (853 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.
Godfried Bomans, De avonturen van Bill Clifford, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hh0kfr5w · ★★☆☆ Fair (415 ratings) · submitted 1997
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
tiny.ag/anqu4m95 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1012 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Theologians", in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/qv5khfql · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Werner von Braun, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
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/f7dpm5bc · ★★☆☆ Fair (391 ratings) · submitted 1997
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
tiny.ag/ocxoq7dr · ★★☆☆ Fair (516 ratings) · submitted 1997
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
tiny.ag/t9fdfjzr · ★★☆☆ Fair (234 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
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/reubvyyi · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
tiny.ag/lwykthro · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nature recycles itself. History repeats itself. Religion has faith in itself. Technology creates itself. Humanity loves itself.
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