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Science and Religion
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. [Select] 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. [Select] It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. [Select] Beware the man of one book. [Select] St. Thomas Aquinas {Also in: Wisdom and Ignorance} Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, and I can singlehandedly move the world. [Select] 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. [Select] I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. [Select] Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion. [Select] Francis Bacon {Also in: Success and Failure} It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. [Select] Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. [Select] Lyman Beecher {Also in: Law and Politics} In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. [Select] Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. [Select] Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be nullified on behalf of a single petitioner, admittedly unworthy. [Select] Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] To generalize is to be an idiot. [Select] Every sentence that I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. [Select] The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. [Select] 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. [Select] Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. [Select] Werner von Braun {Also in: Success and Failure} Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. [Select] According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless. [Select] Ashleigh Brilliant: Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com)
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