Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/jkl5ti0h · ★★☆☆ Fair (349 ratings) · submitted 1997
Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are delightful... Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
tiny.ag/fpaushd2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
tiny.ag/rsp4g5er · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
Men don't change. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
tiny.ag/if4vw3y9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (147 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/rupnqvyt · ★★☆☆ Fair (177 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/e9njxakr · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
Kelvin Throop, III, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/mghd1ps0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
Kerry Thornley, (from the introduction to Principia Discordia, 5th edition, by Malaclypse), in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/iyzc6ufd · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't remember what you can infer.
Harry Tennant, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/mux8i615 · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
tiny.ag/o4053hxu · ★★☆☆ Fair (108 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/c47emtsn · ★★☆☆ Fair (97 ratings) · submitted 1997
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
tiny.ag/pulirvme · ★★☆☆ Fair (91 ratings) · submitted 1997
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
tiny.ag/j1kvztac · ★★☆☆ Fair (282 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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/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/reubvyyi · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
tiny.ag/9dczf2nl · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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/2ejyewwu · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
tiny.ag/o6usdizr · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · submitted 1997
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
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