Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/d0mhaxyw · submitted 1997
Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
tiny.ag/kvmrkdxc · submitted 1997
The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
tiny.ag/f1l2esy8 · submitted 1997
Theft from a single author is plagiarism. Theft from two is comparative study. Theft from three or more is research.
tiny.ag/qzqzxjwo · submitted 1997
There are no errors in this book, except this one.
tiny.ag/h6nrslrd · submitted 1997
There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.
tiny.ag/mux8i615 · submitted 1997
Discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
tiny.ag/mghd1ps0 · submitted 1997
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
Kerry Thornley, (from the introduction to Principia Discordia, 5th edition, by Malaclypse), in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/e9njxakr · submitted 1997
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
Kelvin Throop, III, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/rupnqvyt · submitted 1997
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/if4vw3y9 · submitted 1997
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/rsp4g5er · submitted 1997
Men don't change. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
tiny.ag/iyzc6ufd · submitted 1997
Don't remember what you can infer.
Harry Tennant, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/fpaushd2 · submitted 1997
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
tiny.ag/jkl5ti0h · submitted 1997
Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are delightful... Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
tiny.ag/j1kvztac · submitted 1997
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
tiny.ag/o4053hxu · submitted 1997
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/1xhfeiwu · submitted 1997
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
tiny.ag/5pe8gunh · submitted 1997
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
tiny.ag/fp1pwnlq · submitted 1997
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
tiny.ag/qsdfeahc · submitted 1997
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him.
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