Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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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/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/d0mhaxyw · submitted 1997
Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
tiny.ag/ymof9a0l · submitted 1997
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
tiny.ag/hvtkmq8l · submitted 1997
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ymrr2e7m · submitted 1997
Every dogma must have its day.
tiny.ag/uy8bic2x · submitted 1997
I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
tiny.ag/e7pa2qtv · submitted 1997
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/qswhxoon · submitted 1997
The truth is more important than the facts.
tiny.ag/qrtof0ik · submitted 1997
A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
tiny.ag/pbfz1bc0 · submitted 1997
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion; rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/jd4gcyqf · submitted 1997
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
tiny.ag/e8syltpb · submitted 1997
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
tiny.ag/n8mifyz3 · submitted 1997
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
tiny.ag/m6pcdljo · submitted 1999
In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.
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