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Science and Religion

156 aphorisms  ·  18 comments

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Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (210 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

[aphorist] Gilbert K. Chesterton, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (109 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

[aphorist] Winston Churchill, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (742 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998 by [user] Marc Spierings

Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.

[aphorist] Godfried Bomans, Buitelingen II, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (779 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998 by [user] Marc Spierings

To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.

[aphorist] Godfried Bomans, De avonturen van Bill Clifford, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (201 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

[aphorist] Nathaniel Borenstein, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (897 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Erwin van Moll

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

[aphorist] Jorge Luis Borges, "The Theologians", in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (133 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

[aphorist] Werner von Braun, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Success and Failure

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (735 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

[aphorist] Niels Bohr, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (840 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 by [user] Barry Cantor

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

[aphorist] Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (1124 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.

[aphorist] Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Success and Failure

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (839 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

[aphorist] Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (139 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

[aphorist] Luis Buñuel, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (110 ratings)  ·  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.

[aphorist] John Burroughs, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (262 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

To generalize is to be an idiot.

[aphorist] William Blake, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (233 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Every sentence that I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

[aphorist] Niels Bohr, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (320 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

[aphorist] Niels Bohr, in [category] Science and Religion

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