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Science and Religion
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# · Unrated · submitted 1997
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
Logic is like the sword — those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
# · Not So Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
I think, therefore I am.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
# · Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
I predict that exact reproduction through cloning will not become popular. Too many people already find it difficult to live with themselves.
# · Not So Good (181 ratings) · submitted 1997
Math is like love — a simple idea but it can get complicated.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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