Science and Religion

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Werner von Braun, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

Unknown, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

A single fact can spoil a good argument.

Unknown, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

All probabilities are 50%. Either a thing will happen or it won't.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.

P. L. Berger, in Science and Religion

If you love God, burn the church.

Jello Biafra, in Science and Religion

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Science and Religion

Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be nullified on behalf of a single petitioner, admittedly unworthy.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Science and Religion

To generalize is to be an idiot.

William Blake, in Science and Religion

Beware the man of one book.

St. Thomas Aquinas, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, and I can singlehandedly move the world.

Archimedes, in Science and Religion

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.

Aristotle, in Science and Religion

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, in Science and Religion

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

Lyman Beecher, in Law and Politics and Science and Religion

I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes, in Science and Religion

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

Philip K. Dick, in Science and Religion