Science and Religion
156 aphorisms · 18 comments
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tiny.ag/mueprtoh · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · 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/s6cusegk · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
tiny.ag/zisvds6e · ★★☆☆ Fair (110 ratings) · 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/zurgb1as · ★★☆☆ Fair (159 ratings) · 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/2ejyewwu · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
tiny.ag/5udkeisb · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
tiny.ag/o6usdizr · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · submitted 1997
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
tiny.ag/lwykthro · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nature recycles itself. History repeats itself. Religion has faith in itself. Technology creates itself. Humanity loves itself.
tiny.ag/reubvyyi · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
tiny.ag/cclvohiw · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
Data without generalization is just gossip.
tiny.ag/d0yrceio · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
tiny.ag/jwjgsgh3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (62 ratings) · submitted 1997
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
tiny.ag/kh5vp34e · ★★☆☆ Fair (924 ratings) · submitted 1997
The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.
tiny.ag/gnwfh5op · ★★☆☆ Fair (1525 ratings) · 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/ognqp9t4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
tiny.ag/wgf7zuea · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
tiny.ag/v2eioua3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
tiny.ag/jwhevbgo · ★★☆☆ Fair (304 ratings) · submitted 1997
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
tiny.ag/1qmfwyu2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1177 ratings) · submitted 1997
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/ya1hwz5x · ★★☆☆ Fair (321 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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