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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (788 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998

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

[aphorist] Nicolas Martin, in [category] Life and Death and [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (818 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 by [user] David Epstein (updated 1998)

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

[aphorist] Stephen Hawking, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (760 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

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

[aphorist] Robert A. Heinlein, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (220 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998

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

[aphorist] Ferry, in [category] Altruism and Cynicism and [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (238 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

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

[aphorist] Mike Adams, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (216 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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.

[aphorist] Woody Allen, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (242 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Woody Allen, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (152 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

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

[aphorist] Archimedes, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (280 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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.

[aphorist] Aristotle, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (2876 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Francis Bacon, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Success and Failure

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (184 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (172 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Lyman Beecher, in [category] Law and Politics and [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (146 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] P. L. Berger, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (225 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

To generalize is to be an idiot.

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

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (228 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

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (286 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

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

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (200 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

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (131 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

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (138 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

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

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