Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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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/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/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/mrm8ujlt · ★★☆☆ Fair (870 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.
Godfried Bomans, Buitelingen II, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/oy08nxhf · ★★☆☆ Fair (853 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.
Godfried Bomans, De avonturen van Bill Clifford, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hh0kfr5w · ★★☆☆ Fair (415 ratings) · submitted 1997
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
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