Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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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/m6pcdljo · submitted 1999
In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.
tiny.ag/1bbjwdu7 · submitted 1997
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen Glasgow, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/6kkjfy08 · submitted 1997
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
tiny.ag/fed8pqej · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
tiny.ag/vcqklkqm · submitted 1997
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
tiny.ag/beioj52g · submitted 1997
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion -- i.e., none to speak of.
tiny.ag/pqsikg5n · submitted 1997
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
tiny.ag/reubvyyi · submitted 1997
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
tiny.ag/lwykthro · submitted 1997
Nature recycles itself. History repeats itself. Religion has faith in itself. Technology creates itself. Humanity loves itself.
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.
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/d0yrceio · submitted 1997
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
tiny.ag/cclvohiw · submitted 1997
Data without generalization is just gossip.
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