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Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (896 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 (656 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

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

[aphorist] Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, in [category] Science and Religion

The Dancing Wu Li Masters (paperback)

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (1039 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

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

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

The Legendary Mizners (paperback)

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (761 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

To "be" means to be related.

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

Science and Sanity (hardcover)

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (922 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

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

[aphorist] Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in [category] Science and Religion

The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (791 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

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

[aphorist] Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in [category] Science and Religion

The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (976 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

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

[aphorist] Mahatma Gandhi, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (823 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998 by [user] VWTransit

If you love God, burn the church.

[aphorist] Jello Biafra, in [category] Science and Religion

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 (777 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 (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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (816 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

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (219 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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