Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/1xhfeiwu · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1997
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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/n0rywqhi · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · submitted 1997
Logic is like the sword -- those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
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/lwykthro · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nature recycles itself. History repeats itself. Religion has faith in itself. Technology creates itself. Humanity loves itself.
tiny.ag/reubvyyi · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
tiny.ag/ya1hwz5x · ★★☆☆ Fair (321 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
tiny.ag/o06tx1yn · ★★☆☆ Fair (78 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
tiny.ag/c6jkeq5x · ★★☆☆ Fair (811 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
tiny.ag/b4tuds1y · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
There's always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
Henry Louis Mencken, in Altruism and Cynicism and Science and Religion
tiny.ag/1qmfwyu2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1177 ratings) · submitted 1997
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/jwhevbgo · ★★☆☆ Fair (304 ratings) · submitted 1997
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
tiny.ag/cclvohiw · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
Data without generalization is just gossip.
tiny.ag/d0yrceio · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
tiny.ag/9rg2w8nc · ★★☆☆ Fair (283 ratings) · submitted 1997
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
tiny.ag/jwjgsgh3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (62 ratings) · submitted 1997
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
tiny.ag/8vmi9s0a · ★★☆☆ Fair (492 ratings) · submitted 1997
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.
tiny.ag/v2eioua3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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.
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