Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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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/kbrvjlvy · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
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/hrewibls · ★★☆☆ Fair (29 ratings) · submitted 1997
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
tiny.ag/h2gnzjuo · ★★☆☆ Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
tiny.ag/t9fdfjzr · ★★☆☆ Fair (234 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
tiny.ag/eq4zodra · ★★☆☆ Fair (250 ratings) · submitted 1997
When they broke open molecules, they found they were filled with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found they were filled with explosions.
tiny.ag/kvmrkdxc · ★★☆☆ Fair (212 ratings) · submitted 1997
The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
tiny.ag/d0mhaxyw · ★★☆☆ Fair (216 ratings) · submitted 1997
Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
tiny.ag/h6nrslrd · ★★☆☆ Fair (227 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.
tiny.ag/qzqzxjwo · ★★☆☆ Fair (224 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are no errors in this book, except this one.
tiny.ag/f1l2esy8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (369 ratings) · submitted 1997
Theft from a single author is plagiarism. Theft from two is comparative study. Theft from three or more is research.
tiny.ag/wultb9vd · ★★☆☆ Fair (261 ratings) · submitted 1997
Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
tiny.ag/kvy1ngjh · ★★☆☆ Fair (270 ratings) · submitted 1997
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
tiny.ag/ct4xj6gg · ★★☆☆ Fair (533 ratings) · submitted 1997
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
tiny.ag/con6lmc2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (295 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
tiny.ag/losztnwc · ★★☆☆ Fair (499 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/usy6fzdr · ★★☆☆ Fair (282 ratings) · submitted 1997
I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.
tiny.ag/4xolnjrp · ★★☆☆ Fair (502 ratings) · submitted 1997
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/fxwtpzmn · ★★☆☆ Fair (442 ratings) · submitted 1997
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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