Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/v2eioua3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
tiny.ag/jwjgsgh3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (62 ratings) · submitted 1997
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
tiny.ag/jwhevbgo · ★★☆☆ Fair (304 ratings) · submitted 1997
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
tiny.ag/ya1hwz5x · ★★☆☆ Fair (321 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
tiny.ag/1qmfwyu2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1177 ratings) · 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/b4tuds1y · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/wgf7zuea · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
tiny.ag/hvtkmq8l · ★★☆☆ Fair (154 ratings) · submitted 1997
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ymof9a0l · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
tiny.ag/gv46ldbw · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.
tiny.ag/n8mifyz3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (37 ratings) · submitted 1997
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
tiny.ag/m6pcdljo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1098 ratings) · submitted 1999
In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.
tiny.ag/1bbjwdu7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/6kkjfy08 · ★★☆☆ Fair (839 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
tiny.ag/fed8pqej · ★★☆☆ Fair (1052 ratings) · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
tiny.ag/beioj52g · ★★☆☆ Fair (876 ratings) · submitted 1997
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion -- i.e., none to speak of.
tiny.ag/vcqklkqm · ★★☆☆ Fair (53 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
tiny.ag/ifr4pyih · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
Thomas Hobbes, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/pqsikg5n · ★★☆☆ Fair (398 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
tiny.ag/wgyfgj8m · ★★☆☆ Fair (53 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Heschel, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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