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

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

 Marshall McLuhan, 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

To "be" means to be related.

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

Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.

 Alfred Korzybski, in  Science and Religion and  Wisdom and Ignorance

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

 Max Lerner, in  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, 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

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

 Karl Marx, in  Science and Religion

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

 Andrew W. Mathis, in  Science and Religion

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

 Charles F. Kettering, 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