Science and Religion
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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!
Edit Comment# · Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
"Automatic" simply means that you can't repair it yourself.
Edit Comment# · Fair (331 ratings) · submitted 1997
I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
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.
Oscar Wilde, in
Science and Religion and
Wisdom and Ignorance
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.
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.
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A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
Edit Comment# · Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.
Edit Comment# · Fair (131 ratings) · submitted 1997
All probabilities are 50%. Either a thing will happen or it won't.
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.
Edit Comment# · Fair (123 ratings) · submitted 1997
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.
Edit Comment# · Fair (122 ratings) · submitted 1997
First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.
Edit Comment# · Fair (130 ratings) · submitted 1997
Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.
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Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
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Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune-tellers take economists seriously.
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