Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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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/fsnkyl1j · submitted 1997
To generalize is to be an idiot.
tiny.ag/nadtrlci · submitted 1997
Every sentence that I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
tiny.ag/t6xaogci · submitted 1997
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
tiny.ag/mrm8ujlt · 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 · 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 · 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/ct4xj6gg · submitted 1997
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
tiny.ag/4xolnjrp · submitted 1997
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/usy6fzdr · submitted 1997
I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.
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/fxwtpzmn · submitted 1997
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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