Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/zurgb1as · 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 · 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 · submitted 1997
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
tiny.ag/mueprtoh · 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 · submitted 1997
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
tiny.ag/pulirvme · submitted 1997
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
tiny.ag/c47emtsn · submitted 1997
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
tiny.ag/o4053hxu · 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/j1kvztac · submitted 1997
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
tiny.ag/mux8i615 · submitted 1997
Discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
tiny.ag/iyzc6ufd · submitted 1997
Don't remember what you can infer.
Harry Tennant, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/mghd1ps0 · 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 · 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 · 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 · submitted 1997
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/rsp4g5er · submitted 1997
Men don't change. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
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