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Science and Religion
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# · Not So Good (16 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.
# · Not So Good (71 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
# · Not So Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought — particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
# · Not So Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beware the man of one book.
St. Thomas Aquinas, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, and I can singlehandedly move the world.
# · Not So Good (23 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
# · Not So Good (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
# · Not So Good (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.
Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, in Science and Religion
# · Not So Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
# · Not So Good (17 ratings) · submitted 1997
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
# · Not So Good (26 ratings) · submitted 1997
To generalize is to be an idiot.
# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every sentence that I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
# · Not So Good (17 ratings) · submitted 1997
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
# · Not So Good (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Werner von Braun, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
For my part, the longer I live the less I feel the need of any sort of theological belief, and the more I am content to let unseen powers go on their way with me and mine without question or distrust.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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