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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (310 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

[aphorist] Isaac Asimov, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (21 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

[aphorist] George Santayana, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (6 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

[aphorist] Andy Finkel, (sometimes attributed to James Klass), in [category] 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.

[aphorist] Niels Bohr, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (714 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 2002)

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

[aphorist] Karl Marx, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (1388 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.

[aphorist] Daisaku Ikeda, (World Tribune, Oct. 29, 1999, p. 5), in [category] Happiness and Misery and [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (814 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

[aphorist] Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (1116 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.

[aphorist] Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Success and Failure

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (839 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 by [user] Barry Cantor (updated 1999)

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

[aphorist] Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (845 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Guillermo Ramhorst

The truth is out there.

[aphorist] Chris Carter, The X Files, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (896 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Erwin van Moll

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

[aphorist] Jorge Luis Borges, "The Theologians", in [category] 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.

[aphorist] Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, in [category] Science and Religion

The Dancing Wu Li Masters (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (1039 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

[aphorist] Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Work and Recreation

The Legendary Mizners (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (765 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

To "be" means to be related.

[aphorist] Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Science and Sanity (hardcover)

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.

[aphorist] Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in [category] Science and Religion

The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)

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.

[aphorist] Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in [category] Science and Religion

The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (977 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.

[aphorist] Mahatma Gandhi, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (824 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998 by [user] VWTransit

If you love God, burn the church.

[aphorist] Jello Biafra, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (742 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998 by [user] Marc Spierings

Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.

[aphorist] Godfried Bomans, Buitelingen II, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (777 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998 by [user] Marc Spierings

To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.

[aphorist] Godfried Bomans, De avonturen van Bill Clifford, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

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