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Science and Religion

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#  ·  **-- Not So Good (32 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Niels Bohr, in Science and Religion

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (3 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 2002)

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Karl Marx, in Science and Religion

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (44 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

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (39 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (66 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.

Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (44 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 by Barry Cantor (updated 1999)

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (83 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by Guillermo Ramhorst

The truth is out there.

Chris Carter, The X Files, in Science and Religion

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (36 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

Jorge Luis Borges, "The Theologians", in Science and Religion

#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion; rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, in Science and Religion

The Dancing Wu Li Masters (paperback)

#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

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

The Legendary Mizners (paperback)

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (2 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

To "be" means to be related.

Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

Science and Sanity (hardcover)

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (173 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be nullified on behalf of a single petitioner, admittedly unworthy.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Science and Religion

The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (44 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Science and Religion

The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (19 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Science and Religion

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (48 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998 by VWTransit

If you love God, burn the church.

Jello Biafra, in Science and Religion

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (28 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings

Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.

Godfried Bomans, Buitelingen II, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (30 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings

To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.

Godfried Bomans, De avonturen van Bill Clifford, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (3 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998

Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.

Nicolas Martin, in Life and Death and Science and Religion

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (21 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 by David Epstein (updated 1998)

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

Stephen Hawking, in Science and Religion

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (17 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — i.e., none to speak of.

Robert A. Heinlein, in Science and Religion

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