Science and Religion

Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.

 Nicolas Martin, in  Life and Death and  Science and Religion

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

 Stephen Hawking, in  Science and Religion

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion -- i.e., none to speak of.

 Robert A. Heinlein, in  Science and Religion

The danger today is not so much that machines will learn to think and feel but that men will cease to do so.

 Ferry, in  Altruism and Cynicism and  Science and Religion

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

 Mike Adams, in  Science and Religion

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

 Woody Allen, in  Science and Religion

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.

 Woody Allen, in  Science and Religion

Beware the man of one book.

 St. Thomas Aquinas, in  Science and Religion and  Wisdom and Ignorance

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, and I can singlehandedly move the world.

 Archimedes, in  Science and Religion

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

 Aristotle, in  Science and Religion

Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.

 Francis Bacon, in  Science and Religion and  Success and Failure

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

 Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, in  Science and Religion

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

 Lyman Beecher, in  Law and Politics and  Science and Religion

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.

 P. L. Berger, in  Science and Religion

To generalize is to be an idiot.

 William Blake, in  Science and Religion

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

 Niels Bohr, in  Science and Religion

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

 Niels Bohr, in  Science and Religion

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.

 Nathaniel Borenstein, in  Science and Religion

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

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

 Luis Buñuel, in  Science and Religion