Science and Religion

I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem. [Select]

Ashleigh Brilliant: Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com) {Also in: Success and Failure}

For my part, the longer I live the less I feel the need of any sort of theological belief, and the more I am content to let unseen powers go on their way with me and mine without question or distrust. [Select]

John Burroughs

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. [Select]

John Burroughs

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. [Select]

John Burroughs

Ignorance is the mother of devotion. [Select]

Robert Burton {Also in: Wisdom and Ignorance}

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing. [Select]

Nicholas Murray Butler {Also in: Success and Failure}

Logic is like the sword -- those who appeal to it shall perish by it. [Select]

Samuel Butler

I'm still an atheist, thank God. [Select]

Luis Buñuel

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. [Select]

Thomas Carlyle

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. [Select]

Chamfort

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. [Select]

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. [Select]

Winston Churchill {Also in: Wisdom and Ignorance}

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. [Select]

Arthur C. Clarke

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him. [Select]

Arthur C. Clarke

Absence of proof is not proof of absence. [Select]

Michael Crichton

I think, therefore I am. [Select]

René Descartes

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. [Select]

Philip K. Dick

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. [Select]

Benjamin Disraeli

I predict that exact reproduction through cloning will not become popular. Too many people already find it difficult to live with themselves. [Select]

Jeanne Dixon

Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. [Select]

R. Drabek {Also in: Love and Hate}

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