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Science and Religion
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Edit Comment# · Fair (310 ratings) · submitted 1997
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Edit Comment# · Fair (21 ratings) · submitted 1997
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Edit Comment# · Fair (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
Andy Finkel, (sometimes attributed to James Klass), in
Science and Religion
Edit Comment# · Fair (734 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 2008)
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Edit Comment# · Fair (714 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 2002)
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
Edit Comment# · Fair (1388 ratings) · submitted 1999
It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.
Daisaku Ikeda, (World Tribune, Oct. 29, 1999, p. 5), in
Happiness and Misery and
Science and Religion
Edit Comment# · Fair (814 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in
Science and Religion
Edit Comment# · Fair (1116 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in
Science and Religion and
Success and Failure
Edit Comment# · Fair (839 ratings) · submitted 1997 by
Barry Cantor (updated 1999)
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in
Science and Religion
Edit Comment# · Fair (845 ratings) · submitted 1999 by
Guillermo Ramhorst
The truth is out there.
Chris Carter, The X Files, in
Science and Religion
Edit Comment# · Fair (896 ratings) · 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
Edit Comment# · Fair (657 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion; rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, in
Science and Religion
Edit Comment# · Fair (1039 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
Edit Comment# · Fair (765 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
To "be" means to be related.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in
Science and Religion and
Wisdom and Ignorance
Edit Comment# · Fair (923 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
Edit Comment# · Fair (792 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
Edit Comment# · Fair (977 ratings) · submitted 1999
In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.
Edit Comment# · Fair (742 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
Edit Comment# · Fair (777 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
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