Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/5pe8gunh · ★★☆☆ Fair (114 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
tiny.ag/ol3p8lvo · ★★☆☆ Fair (928 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Guillermo Ramhorst
The truth is out there.
Chris Carter, The X Files, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/wgf7zuea · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
tiny.ag/jw1vdna4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/n0rywqhi · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · submitted 1997
Logic is like the sword -- those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
tiny.ag/36xg9wvl · ★★☆☆ Fair (374 ratings) · submitted 1997
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/j4ksifbx · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
tiny.ag/iv0n7jxr · ★★☆☆ Fair (468 ratings) · submitted 1997
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
tiny.ag/kfhn9y7w · ★★☆☆ Fair (195 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/xji01bnw · ★★☆☆ Fair (225 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
tiny.ag/eq4zodra · ★★☆☆ Fair (250 ratings) · submitted 1997
When they broke open molecules, they found they were filled with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found they were filled with explosions.
tiny.ag/qzqzxjwo · ★★☆☆ Fair (224 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are no errors in this book, except this one.
tiny.ag/h6nrslrd · ★★☆☆ Fair (227 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.
tiny.ag/d0mhaxyw · ★★☆☆ Fair (216 ratings) · submitted 1997
Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
tiny.ag/f1l2esy8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (369 ratings) · submitted 1997
Theft from a single author is plagiarism. Theft from two is comparative study. Theft from three or more is research.
tiny.ag/kvmrkdxc · ★★☆☆ Fair (212 ratings) · submitted 1997
The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
tiny.ag/wultb9vd · ★★☆☆ Fair (261 ratings) · submitted 1997
Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
tiny.ag/hpw0adig · ★★☆☆ Fair (240 ratings) · submitted 1997
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
tiny.ag/icgo06ph · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 ratings) · submitted 1997
Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.
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