Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/ymrr2e7m · ★★☆☆ Fair (211 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every dogma must have its day.
tiny.ag/9zs6rptf · ★★☆☆ Fair (149 ratings) · submitted 1997
"Automatic" simply means that you can't repair it yourself.
tiny.ag/3hh9mnjs · ★★☆☆ Fair (118 ratings) · submitted 1997
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
tiny.ag/j1kvztac · ★★☆☆ Fair (282 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
tiny.ag/mux8i615 · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
tiny.ag/iyzc6ufd · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't remember what you can infer.
Harry Tennant, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/mghd1ps0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
Kerry Thornley, (from the introduction to Principia Discordia, 5th edition, by Malaclypse), in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/e9njxakr · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
Kelvin Throop, III, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/if4vw3y9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (147 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/rsp4g5er · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
Men don't change. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
tiny.ag/fpaushd2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
tiny.ag/jkl5ti0h · ★★☆☆ Fair (349 ratings) · submitted 1997
Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are delightful... Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
tiny.ag/rupnqvyt · ★★☆☆ Fair (177 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/gnwfh5op · ★★☆☆ Fair (1525 ratings) · submitted 1999
It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.
Daisaku Ikeda, (World Tribune, Oct. 29, 1999, p. 5), in Happiness and Misery and Science and Religion
tiny.ag/kvgolwyi · ★★☆☆ Fair (278 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.
tiny.ag/ognqp9t4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
tiny.ag/m6pcdljo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1098 ratings) · submitted 1999
In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.
tiny.ag/n8mifyz3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (37 ratings) · submitted 1997
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
tiny.ag/cxkiivxs · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · submitted 1997
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kbrvjlvy · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
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