Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/jwjgsgh3 · submitted 1997
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
tiny.ag/v2eioua3 · submitted 1997
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
tiny.ag/8vmi9s0a · submitted 1997
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.
tiny.ag/9rg2w8nc · submitted 1997
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
tiny.ag/6hcujeiu · submitted 1997
Beware the man of one book.
St. Thomas Aquinas, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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/vo8qhfwa · submitted 1997
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
tiny.ag/4ylvdkig · submitted 1997
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
tiny.ag/iv0n7jxr · 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 · submitted 1997
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/36xg9wvl · 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 · submitted 1997
Logic is like the sword -- those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
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/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.
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