Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/pbfz1bc0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (798 ratings) · submitted 1997
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion; rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/jd4gcyqf · ★★☆☆ Fair (171 ratings) · submitted 1997
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
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.
tiny.ag/4rgim10d · ★★☆☆ Fair (154 ratings) · submitted 1997
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
tiny.ag/lwrzvsfo · ★★☆☆ Fair (216 ratings) · submitted 1997
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
tiny.ag/n7uywfhs · ★★☆☆ Fair (191 ratings) · submitted 1997
A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.
tiny.ag/oxnkf52j · ★★☆☆ Fair (232 ratings) · submitted 1997
All probabilities are 50%. Either a thing will happen or it won't.
tiny.ag/rdhwutp3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (194 ratings) · submitted 1997
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
tiny.ag/bayzpj4i · ★★☆☆ Fair (198 ratings) · submitted 1997
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.
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/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/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/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/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/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/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/fpaushd2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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/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.
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