Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/qkyrww23 · ★★☆☆ Fair (198 ratings) · submitted 1997
First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.
tiny.ag/icgo06ph · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 ratings) · submitted 1997
Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.
tiny.ag/pjhoaeaj · ★★☆☆ Fair (195 ratings) · submitted 1997
Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
tiny.ag/2fem3dfi · ★★☆☆ Fair (211 ratings) · submitted 1997
Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune-tellers take economists seriously.
tiny.ag/zvh1wgvj · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
tiny.ag/hpw0adig · ★★☆☆ Fair (240 ratings) · submitted 1997
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
tiny.ag/ejnzrzf3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (239 ratings) · submitted 1997
My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts!
tiny.ag/jsu6vp9n · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
tiny.ag/e8syltpb · ★★☆☆ Fair (147 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
tiny.ag/4rgim10d · ★★☆☆ Fair (154 ratings) · submitted 1997
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
tiny.ag/lwrzvsfo · ★★☆☆ Fair (216 ratings) · submitted 1997
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
tiny.ag/n7uywfhs · ★★☆☆ Fair (191 ratings) · submitted 1997
A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.
tiny.ag/oxnkf52j · ★★☆☆ Fair (232 ratings) · submitted 1997
All probabilities are 50%. Either a thing will happen or it won't.
tiny.ag/rdhwutp3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (194 ratings) · submitted 1997
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
tiny.ag/bayzpj4i · ★★☆☆ Fair (198 ratings) · submitted 1997
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.
tiny.ag/nuplbfta · ★★☆☆ Fair (279 ratings) · submitted 1997
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
Jean-Paul Kauffmann, in Science and Religion and Wealth and Poverty
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