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Science and Religion
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Commenttiny.ag/kgnv53qx · ★★☆☆ Fair (3070 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.
Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
Commenttiny.ag/6hcujeiu · ★★☆☆ Fair (320 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beware the man of one book.
St. Thomas Aquinas, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
Commenttiny.ag/swcz0xme · ★★☆☆ Fair (238 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, and I can singlehandedly move the world.
Commenttiny.ag/vo8qhfwa · ★★☆☆ Fair (414 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
Commenttiny.ag/4ylvdkig · ★★☆☆ Fair (440 ratings) · submitted 1997
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Commenttiny.ag/oru8uham · ★★☆☆ Fair (358 ratings) · submitted 1997
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
Commenttiny.ag/xyhjnkct · ★★☆☆ Fair (410 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
Commenttiny.ag/b5jkxngz · ★★☆☆ Fair (335 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
Commenttiny.ag/kvmrkdxc · ★★☆☆ Fair (212 ratings) · submitted 1997
The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
Commenttiny.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.
Commenttiny.ag/qzqzxjwo · ★★☆☆ Fair (224 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are no errors in this book, except this one.
Commenttiny.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.
Commenttiny.ag/d0mhaxyw · ★★☆☆ Fair (216 ratings) · submitted 1997
Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Commenttiny.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.
Commenttiny.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.
Commenttiny.ag/zvh1wgvj · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
Commenttiny.ag/hpw0adig · ★★☆☆ Fair (240 ratings) · submitted 1997
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
Commenttiny.ag/ejnzrzf3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (239 ratings) · submitted 1997
My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts!
Commenttiny.ag/pjhoaeaj · ★★☆☆ Fair (195 ratings) · submitted 1997
Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
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