Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/1bbjwdu7 · submitted 1997
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen Glasgow, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/6kkjfy08 · submitted 1997
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
tiny.ag/wgyfgj8m · submitted 1997
Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Heschel, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ifr4pyih · submitted 1997
Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
Thomas Hobbes, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/gv46ldbw · submitted 1997
This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.
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/m6pcdljo · submitted 1999
In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.
tiny.ag/n8mifyz3 · submitted 1997
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
tiny.ag/hrewibls · submitted 1997
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
tiny.ag/kvgolwyi · submitted 1998
The danger today is not so much that machines will learn to think and feel but that men will cease to do so.
tiny.ag/kbrvjlvy · submitted 1997
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
tiny.ag/cxkiivxs · submitted 1997
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/h2gnzjuo · submitted 1997
Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
tiny.ag/ct4xj6gg · submitted 1997
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
tiny.ag/4xolnjrp · submitted 1997
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/usy6fzdr · submitted 1997
I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.
tiny.ag/losztnwc · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/con6lmc2 · submitted 1997
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
tiny.ag/kvy1ngjh · submitted 1997
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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