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Science and Religion
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# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
# · Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1997
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
# · Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
# · Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
# · Not So Good (14 ratings) · submitted 1997
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen Glasgow, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Heschel, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
Thomas Hobbes, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
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