Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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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/xji01bnw · submitted 1997
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
tiny.ag/nuplbfta · submitted 1997
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
Jean-Paul Kauffmann, in Science and Religion and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/wgyfgj8m · submitted 1997
Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Heschel, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ifr4pyih · submitted 1997
Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
Thomas Hobbes, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/gv46ldbw · submitted 1997
This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.
tiny.ag/ymof9a0l · submitted 1997
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
tiny.ag/hvtkmq8l · submitted 1997
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/wgf7zuea · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
tiny.ag/ognqp9t4 · submitted 1997
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
tiny.ag/gnwfh5op · submitted 1999
It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.
Daisaku Ikeda, (World Tribune, Oct. 29, 1999, p. 5), in Happiness and Misery and Science and Religion
tiny.ag/kh5vp34e · submitted 1997
The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.
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