Science and Religion

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

Mickey Mouse, in Science and Religion

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Christopher Morley, in Science and Religion

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Michel de Montaigne, in Science and Religion

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

Mike Adams, in Science and Religion

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Elbert Hubbard, in Science and Religion and Vice and Virtue

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley, in Science and Religion and War and Peace

It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.

Daisaku Ikeda, (World Tribune, Oct. 29, 1999, p. 5), in Happiness and Misery and Science and Religion

The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.

Robert G. Ingersoll, in Science and Religion

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Karl Marx, in Science and Religion

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Andrew W. Mathis, in Science and Religion

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan, in Science and Religion

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

Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.

Nicolas Martin, in Life and Death and Science and Religion

To "be" means to be related.

Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Doug Horton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.

Abraham Heschel, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

Andy Finkel, (sometimes attributed to James Klass), in Science and Religion

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of leading causes of statistics.

Fletcher Knebel, in Science and Religion

This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.

Doug Hofstadter, in Science and Religion