Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/jsu6vp9n · submitted 1997
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
tiny.ag/r2mgfi6o · submitted 1997
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
Andy Finkel, (sometimes attributed to James Klass), in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/kixc9uy6 · submitted 1997
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of leading causes of statistics.
tiny.ag/qiy9xdhn · submitted 1997
To "be" means to be related.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/xachd7wx · submitted 1997
Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.
Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/nuplbfta · submitted 1997
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
Jean-Paul Kauffmann, in Science and Religion and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/wgf7zuea · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
tiny.ag/ognqp9t4 · submitted 1997
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
tiny.ag/gnwfh5op · 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
tiny.ag/kh5vp34e · submitted 1997
The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.
tiny.ag/swcz0xme · submitted 1997
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, and I can singlehandedly move the world.
tiny.ag/xji01bnw · submitted 1997
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
tiny.ag/wultb9vd · submitted 1997
Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
tiny.ag/eq4zodra · submitted 1997
When they broke open molecules, they found they were filled with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found they were filled with explosions.
tiny.ag/d0yrceio · submitted 1997
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
tiny.ag/cclvohiw · submitted 1997
Data without generalization is just gossip.
tiny.ag/reubvyyi · submitted 1997
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
tiny.ag/lwykthro · submitted 1997
Nature recycles itself. History repeats itself. Religion has faith in itself. Technology creates itself. Humanity loves itself.
tiny.ag/1qmfwyu2 · 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/ya1hwz5x · submitted 1997
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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