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Science and Religion
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# · Not So Good (18 ratings) · submitted 1997
This sentence contradicts itself — no actually it doesn't.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
# · Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
Jean-Paul Kauffmann, in Science and Religion and Wealth and Poverty
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of leading causes of statistics.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.
Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
There's always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
Henry Louis Mencken, in Altruism and Cynicism and Science and Religion
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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