Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/swcz0xme · ★★☆☆ Fair (238 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, and I can singlehandedly move the world.
tiny.ag/vo8qhfwa · ★★☆☆ Fair (414 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
tiny.ag/4ylvdkig · ★★☆☆ Fair (440 ratings) · submitted 1997
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
tiny.ag/hpw0adig · ★★☆☆ Fair (240 ratings) · submitted 1997
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
tiny.ag/ejnzrzf3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (239 ratings) · submitted 1997
My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts!
tiny.ag/qkyrww23 · ★★☆☆ Fair (198 ratings) · submitted 1997
First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.
tiny.ag/icgo06ph · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 ratings) · submitted 1997
Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.
tiny.ag/pjhoaeaj · ★★☆☆ Fair (195 ratings) · submitted 1997
Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
tiny.ag/2fem3dfi · ★★☆☆ Fair (211 ratings) · submitted 1997
Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune-tellers take economists seriously.
tiny.ag/zvh1wgvj · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
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.
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