Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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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.
tiny.ag/con6lmc2 · submitted 1997
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
tiny.ag/losztnwc · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/usy6fzdr · submitted 1997
I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.
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/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/fxwtpzmn · submitted 1997
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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/li6watos · submitted 1997
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/pqsikg5n · submitted 1997
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
tiny.ag/beioj52g · submitted 1997
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion -- i.e., none to speak of.
tiny.ag/vcqklkqm · submitted 1997
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
tiny.ag/1xhfeiwu · submitted 1997
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
tiny.ag/oru8uham · submitted 1997
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
tiny.ag/xyhjnkct · submitted 1997
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
tiny.ag/b5jkxngz · submitted 1997
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
tiny.ag/kvmrkdxc · submitted 1997
The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
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