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Science and Religion
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# · 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.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty — I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Data without generalization is just gossip.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Nature recycles itself. History repeats itself. Religion has faith in itself. Technology creates itself. Humanity loves itself.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Man is a credulous animal and must believe something. In the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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