Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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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/fpaushd2 · submitted 1997
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
tiny.ag/6dwsjbik · submitted 1998 by VWTransit
If you love God, burn the church.
tiny.ag/xji01bnw · submitted 1997
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
tiny.ag/kfhn9y7w · submitted 1997
For my part, the longer I live the less I feel the need of any sort of theological belief, and the more I am content to let unseen powers go on their way with me and mine without question or distrust.
tiny.ag/iv0n7jxr · submitted 1997
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
tiny.ag/j4ksifbx · submitted 1997
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/36xg9wvl · submitted 1997
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/n0rywqhi · submitted 1997
Logic is like the sword -- those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
tiny.ag/jw1vdna4 · submitted 1997
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
tiny.ag/ol3p8lvo · submitted 1999 by Guillermo Ramhorst
The truth is out there.
Chris Carter, The X Files, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/fed8pqej · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
tiny.ag/vcqklkqm · submitted 1997
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
tiny.ag/beioj52g · submitted 1997
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion -- i.e., none to speak of.
tiny.ag/pqsikg5n · submitted 1997
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
tiny.ag/o6usdizr · submitted 1997
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
tiny.ag/5udkeisb · submitted 1997
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
tiny.ag/2ejyewwu · submitted 1997
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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