Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/mueprtoh · submitted 1997
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
tiny.ag/5udkeisb · submitted 1997
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
tiny.ag/lwykthro · submitted 1997
Nature recycles itself. History repeats itself. Religion has faith in itself. Technology creates itself. Humanity loves itself.
tiny.ag/reubvyyi · submitted 1997
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
tiny.ag/cclvohiw · submitted 1997
Data without generalization is just gossip.
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/b4tuds1y · submitted 1997
There's always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
Henry Louis Mencken, in Altruism and Cynicism and Science and Religion
tiny.ag/c6jkeq5x · submitted 1997
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
tiny.ag/o06tx1yn · submitted 1997
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
tiny.ag/jlciv6fb · submitted 1997
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
tiny.ag/3ipv86qd · submitted 1998
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
tiny.ag/n8mifyz3 · submitted 1997
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
tiny.ag/hrewibls · submitted 1997
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
tiny.ag/h2gnzjuo · submitted 1997
Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
tiny.ag/kvgolwyi · submitted 1998
The danger today is not so much that machines will learn to think and feel but that men will cease to do so.
tiny.ag/itemrhi6 · submitted 1997
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
tiny.ag/s2rmspti · submitted 1997
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
tiny.ag/unpjgmma · submitted 1997
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
tiny.ag/hmdnaus7 · submitted 1997
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
tiny.ag/kvy1ngjh · submitted 1997
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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