Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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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/9rg2w8nc · ★★☆☆ Fair (283 ratings) · submitted 1997
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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/v2eioua3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
tiny.ag/jwjgsgh3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (62 ratings) · submitted 1997
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
tiny.ag/jwhevbgo · ★★☆☆ Fair (304 ratings) · submitted 1997
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
tiny.ag/ya1hwz5x · ★★☆☆ Fair (321 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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/1xhfeiwu · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1997
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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/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/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/nslm4fyi · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
tiny.ag/1qmfwyu2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1177 ratings) · submitted 1997
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/hvtkmq8l · ★★☆☆ Fair (154 ratings) · submitted 1997
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/wgyfgj8m · ★★☆☆ Fair (53 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Heschel, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ymof9a0l · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
tiny.ag/gv46ldbw · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.
tiny.ag/ifr4pyih · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
Thomas Hobbes, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
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