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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.
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.
Winston Churchill, in
Science and Religion and
Wisdom and Ignorance
Comment# · Fair (742 ratings) · submitted 1998 by
Marc Spierings
Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.
Godfried Bomans, Buitelingen II, in
Science and Religion and
Wisdom and Ignorance
Comment# · Fair (779 ratings) · submitted 1998 by
Marc Spierings
To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.
Godfried Bomans, De avonturen van Bill Clifford, in
Science and Religion and
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.
Comment# · Fair (897 ratings) · submitted 1999 by
Erwin van Moll
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Theologians", in
Science and Religion
Comment# · Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Werner von Braun, in
Science and Religion and
Success and Failure
Comment# · Fair (735 ratings) · submitted 1997
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Comment# · Fair (840 ratings) · submitted 1997 by
Barry Cantor
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in
Science and Religion
Comment# · Fair (1124 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in
Science and Religion and
Success and Failure
Comment# · Fair (839 ratings) · submitted 1997
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in
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.
Comment# · Fair (233 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every sentence that I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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