Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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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/kvmrkdxc · submitted 1997
The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
tiny.ag/f1l2esy8 · submitted 1997
Theft from a single author is plagiarism. Theft from two is comparative study. Theft from three or more is research.
tiny.ag/qzqzxjwo · submitted 1997
There are no errors in this book, except this one.
tiny.ag/h6nrslrd · submitted 1997
There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.
tiny.ag/d0mhaxyw · submitted 1997
Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
tiny.ag/uoqbw63r · 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/ebp3wveo · submitted 1997
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
tiny.ag/lqhkxzhu · submitted 1997
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
tiny.ag/6dwsjbik · submitted 1998 by VWTransit
If you love God, burn the church.
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/anqu4m95 · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Theologians", in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/5udkeisb · submitted 1997
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
tiny.ag/2ejyewwu · submitted 1997
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
tiny.ag/zurgb1as · submitted 1997
Man is a credulous animal and must believe something. In the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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