Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/2ejyewwu · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
tiny.ag/zurgb1as · ★★☆☆ Fair (159 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is a credulous animal and must believe something. In the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
tiny.ag/zisvds6e · ★★☆☆ Fair (110 ratings) · submitted 1997
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
tiny.ag/s6cusegk · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
tiny.ag/mueprtoh · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · submitted 1997
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
tiny.ag/9dczf2nl · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
tiny.ag/pulirvme · ★★☆☆ Fair (91 ratings) · submitted 1997
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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/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/nuplbfta · ★★☆☆ Fair (279 ratings) · submitted 1997
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
Jean-Paul Kauffmann, in Science and Religion and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/jsu6vp9n · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
tiny.ag/v2eioua3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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/9rg2w8nc · ★★☆☆ Fair (283 ratings) · submitted 1997
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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/cclvohiw · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
Data without generalization is just gossip.
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