Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/kbrvjlvy · submitted 1997
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
tiny.ag/cxkiivxs · submitted 1997
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/n8mifyz3 · submitted 1997
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
tiny.ag/fxwtpzmn · submitted 1997
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
tiny.ag/a0oxkbo4 · submitted 1997
I think, therefore I am.
tiny.ag/f0cqgbjg · submitted 1997
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
tiny.ag/eoc1jiyu · submitted 1997
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
tiny.ag/8acgevbd · 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/kgnv53qx · submitted 1997
Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.
Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/uoqbw63r · submitted 1997
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/ebp3wveo · submitted 1997
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
tiny.ag/lqhkxzhu · submitted 1997
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
tiny.ag/6dwsjbik · submitted 1998 by VWTransit
If you love God, burn the church.
tiny.ag/gzduntch · submitted 1997
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/ex5pqdpc · 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/nslm4fyi · submitted 1997
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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