Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/1xhfeiwu · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1997
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
tiny.ag/li6watos · ★★☆☆ Fair (263 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ex5pqdpc · ★★☆☆ Fair (1016 ratings) · submitted 1997
Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be nullified on behalf of a single petitioner, admittedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/fsnkyl1j · ★★☆☆ Fair (578 ratings) · submitted 1997
To generalize is to be an idiot.
tiny.ag/nadtrlci · ★★☆☆ Fair (312 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every sentence that I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
tiny.ag/t6xaogci · ★★☆☆ Fair (576 ratings) · submitted 1997
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
tiny.ag/mrm8ujlt · ★★☆☆ Fair (870 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.
Godfried Bomans, Buitelingen II, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/oy08nxhf · ★★☆☆ Fair (853 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.
Godfried Bomans, De avonturen van Bill Clifford, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hh0kfr5w · ★★☆☆ Fair (415 ratings) · submitted 1997
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
tiny.ag/anqu4m95 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1012 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Theologians", in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/qv5khfql · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Werner von Braun, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/btoy5umi · ★★☆☆ Fair (829 ratings) · submitted 1997
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
tiny.ag/a8ytu9a2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (962 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Barry Cantor
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/4t1buvks · ★★☆☆ Fair (1278 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/cz34szjm · ★★☆☆ Fair (1108 ratings) · submitted 1997
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/wultb9vd · ★★☆☆ Fair (261 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (250 ratings) · 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/kgnv53qx · ★★☆☆ Fair (3070 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.
Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/uoqbw63r · ★★☆☆ Fair (517 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/ebp3wveo · ★★☆☆ Fair (274 ratings) · submitted 1997
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
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