Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
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tiny.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.
tiny.ag/hpw0adig · ★★☆☆ Fair (240 ratings) · submitted 1997
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
tiny.ag/ejnzrzf3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (239 ratings) · submitted 1997
My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts!
tiny.ag/j4ksifbx · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/36xg9wvl · ★★☆☆ Fair (374 ratings) · submitted 1997
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
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/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/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/1xhfeiwu · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1997
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
tiny.ag/li6watos · ★★☆☆ Fair (263 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/fp1pwnlq · ★★☆☆ Fair (110 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
tiny.ag/qsdfeahc · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him.
tiny.ag/qkyrww23 · ★★☆☆ Fair (198 ratings) · submitted 1997
First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.
tiny.ag/icgo06ph · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 ratings) · submitted 1997
Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.
tiny.ag/pjhoaeaj · ★★☆☆ Fair (195 ratings) · submitted 1997
Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
tiny.ag/2fem3dfi · ★★☆☆ Fair (211 ratings) · submitted 1997
Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune-tellers take economists seriously.
tiny.ag/zvh1wgvj · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
tiny.ag/e8syltpb · ★★☆☆ Fair (147 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
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