Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/9zs6rptf · submitted 1997
"Automatic" simply means that you can't repair it yourself.
tiny.ag/3hh9mnjs · submitted 1997
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
tiny.ag/jkl5ti0h · submitted 1997
Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are delightful... Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
tiny.ag/fpaushd2 · submitted 1997
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
tiny.ag/3ipv86qd · submitted 1998
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
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/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/jlciv6fb · submitted 1997
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
tiny.ag/o06tx1yn · submitted 1997
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
tiny.ag/2fem3dfi · submitted 1997
Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune-tellers take economists seriously.
tiny.ag/ejnzrzf3 · submitted 1997
My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts!
tiny.ag/hpw0adig · submitted 1997
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
tiny.ag/zvh1wgvj · submitted 1997
It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
tiny.ag/c47emtsn · submitted 1997
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
tiny.ag/o4053hxu · submitted 1997
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/j1kvztac · submitted 1997
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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/qsdfeahc · submitted 1997
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him.
tiny.ag/5udkeisb · submitted 1997
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
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