Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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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/kbrvjlvy · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
tiny.ag/cxkiivxs · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · submitted 1997
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/n8mifyz3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (37 ratings) · submitted 1997
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
tiny.ag/m6pcdljo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1098 ratings) · submitted 1999
In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.
tiny.ag/ognqp9t4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
tiny.ag/gnwfh5op · ★★☆☆ Fair (1525 ratings) · submitted 1999
It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.
Daisaku Ikeda, (World Tribune, Oct. 29, 1999, p. 5), in Happiness and Misery and Science and Religion
tiny.ag/kh5vp34e · ★★☆☆ Fair (924 ratings) · submitted 1997
The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.
tiny.ag/kvgolwyi · ★★☆☆ Fair (278 ratings) · submitted 1998
The danger today is not so much that machines will learn to think and feel but that men will cease to do so.
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/9dczf2nl · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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/5udkeisb · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
tiny.ag/2ejyewwu · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
tiny.ag/h2gnzjuo · ★★☆☆ Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
tiny.ag/hrewibls · ★★☆☆ Fair (29 ratings) · submitted 1997
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
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