Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/3hh9mnjs · ★★☆☆ Fair (118 ratings) · submitted 1997
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
tiny.ag/9zs6rptf · ★★☆☆ Fair (149 ratings) · submitted 1997
"Automatic" simply means that you can't repair it yourself.
tiny.ag/ymrr2e7m · ★★☆☆ Fair (211 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every dogma must have its day.
tiny.ag/uy8bic2x · ★★☆☆ Fair (485 ratings) · submitted 1997
I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
tiny.ag/e7pa2qtv · ★★☆☆ Fair (554 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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/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/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/9dczf2nl · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
tiny.ag/pulirvme · ★★☆☆ Fair (91 ratings) · submitted 1997
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
tiny.ag/c47emtsn · ★★☆☆ Fair (97 ratings) · submitted 1997
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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/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/9rg2w8nc · ★★☆☆ Fair (283 ratings) · submitted 1997
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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/cclvohiw · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
Data without generalization is just gossip.
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