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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (37 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!

[aphorist] Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (64 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

"Automatic" simply means that you can't repair it yourself.

[aphorist] Mary H. Waldrip, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (74 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Every dogma must have its day.

[aphorist] H. G. Wells, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (331 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

[aphorist] Oscar Wilde, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (355 ratings)  ·  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.

[aphorist] Oscar Wilde, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (51 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The truth is more important than the facts.

[aphorist] Frank Lloyd Wright, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (58 ratings)  ·  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.

[aphorist] Thomas Ybarra, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (36 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

[aphorist] Carl Zwanzig, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (47 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (56 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A single fact can spoil a good argument.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (118 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (107 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (131 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

All probabilities are 50%. Either a thing will happen or it won't.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (126 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (123 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (122 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (130 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (124 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (119 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune-tellers take economists seriously.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (126 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Science and Religion

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