Science and Religion

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.

 P. L. Berger, in  Science and Religion

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

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

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

 Michel de Montaigne, in  Science and Religion

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

 Christopher Morley, in  Science and Religion

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

 Mickey Mouse, in  Science and Religion

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

 Napoleon, in  Science and Religion

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.

 Friedrich Nietzsche, in  Science and Religion

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

 Friedrich Nietzsche, in  Science and Religion

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

 Laurence J. Peter, in  Science and Religion

Data without generalization is just gossip.

 Robert Pirsig, in  Science and Religion

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

 Ellen Glasgow, in  Science and Religion and  Wisdom and Ignorance

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

 Samuel Goldwyn, in  Science and Religion

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

 Stephen Hawking, in  Science and Religion

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

 Friedrich Hegel, in  Science and Religion

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion -- i.e., none to speak of.

 Robert A. Heinlein, in  Science and Religion

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

 Robert A. Heinlein, in  Science and Religion

Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.

 Abraham Heschel, in  Science and Religion and  Wisdom and Ignorance

Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.

 Nicolas Martin, in  Life and Death and  Science and Religion

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

 Karl Marx, in  Science and Religion