Science and Religion

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

 Jorge Luis Borges, "The Theologians", in  Science and Religion

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion; rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

 Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, in  Science and Religion

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

 Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in  Science and Religion and  Work and Recreation

To "be" means to be related.

 Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in  Science and Religion and  Wisdom and Ignorance

Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be nullified on behalf of a single petitioner, admittedly unworthy.

 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in  Science and Religion

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in  Science and Religion

In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.

 Mahatma Gandhi, in  Science and Religion

If you love God, burn the church.

 Jello Biafra, in  Science and Religion

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

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

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