Science and Religion

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Doug Horton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Abraham Heschel, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

Thomas Hobbes, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.

Doug Hofstadter, in Science and Religion

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

Art Hoppe, in Science and Religion

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.

Woody Allen, in Science and Religion

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.

Woody Allen, in Science and Religion

Beware the man of one book.

St. Thomas Aquinas, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

Mike Adams, 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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

Andy Finkel, (sometimes attributed to James Klass), 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

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan, in Science and Religion

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Andrew W. Mathis, in Science and Religion

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Karl Marx, in Science and Religion

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

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

Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.

Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance