Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/rsp4g5er · submitted 1997
Men don't change. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
tiny.ag/fpaushd2 · submitted 1997
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
tiny.ag/mux8i615 · submitted 1997
Discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
tiny.ag/iyzc6ufd · submitted 1997
Don't remember what you can infer.
Harry Tennant, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/jwhevbgo · submitted 1997
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
tiny.ag/jwjgsgh3 · submitted 1997
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
tiny.ag/v2eioua3 · submitted 1997
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
tiny.ag/8vmi9s0a · 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/9rg2w8nc · submitted 1997
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
tiny.ag/1qmfwyu2 · submitted 1997
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/ya1hwz5x · submitted 1997
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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/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/qiy9xdhn · submitted 1997
To "be" means to be related.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/xachd7wx · submitted 1997
Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.
Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/r2mgfi6o · submitted 1997
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
Andy Finkel, (sometimes attributed to James Klass), in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/kixc9uy6 · submitted 1997
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of leading causes of statistics.
tiny.ag/8acgevbd · submitted 1997
I predict that exact reproduction through cloning will not become popular. Too many people already find it difficult to live with themselves.
tiny.ag/fxwtpzmn · submitted 1997
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
tiny.ag/a0oxkbo4 · submitted 1997
I think, therefore I am.
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