Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/mueprtoh · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · 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/s6cusegk · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
tiny.ag/mrm8ujlt · ★★☆☆ Fair (870 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (853 ratings) · 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/cclvohiw · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
Data without generalization is just gossip.
tiny.ag/reubvyyi · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
tiny.ag/lwykthro · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nature recycles itself. History repeats itself. Religion has faith in itself. Technology creates itself. Humanity loves itself.
tiny.ag/t6xaogci · ★★☆☆ Fair (576 ratings) · submitted 1997
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
tiny.ag/nadtrlci · ★★☆☆ Fair (312 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every sentence that I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
tiny.ag/fsnkyl1j · ★★☆☆ Fair (578 ratings) · submitted 1997
To generalize is to be an idiot.
tiny.ag/ex5pqdpc · ★★☆☆ Fair (1016 ratings) · 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/ebp3wveo · ★★☆☆ Fair (274 ratings) · submitted 1997
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
tiny.ag/uoqbw63r · ★★☆☆ Fair (517 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/6dwsjbik · ★★☆☆ Fair (907 ratings) · submitted 1998 by VWTransit
If you love God, burn the church.
tiny.ag/lqhkxzhu · ★★☆☆ Fair (212 ratings) · submitted 1997
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
tiny.ag/gzduntch · ★★☆☆ Fair (884 ratings) · 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/9rg2w8nc · ★★☆☆ Fair (283 ratings) · submitted 1997
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
tiny.ag/d0yrceio · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
tiny.ag/8vmi9s0a · ★★☆☆ Fair (492 ratings) · submitted 1997
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.
tiny.ag/v2eioua3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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