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"Automatic" simply means that you can't repair it yourself.
Mary H. Waldrip

A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas Ybarra

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
Unknown

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
James Feibleman

A single fact can spoil a good argument.
Unknown

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
Unknown

A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.
Unknown

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
Michael Crichton

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion; rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
Gary Zukav

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
Ashleigh Brilliant

All probabilities are 50%. Either a thing will happen or it won't.
Unknown

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
E. Rutherford

An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
Unknown

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
James Klass

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Samuel Goldwyn

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

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.
Albert Einstein

Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
Sr. Feather

Beware the man of one book.
St. Thomas Aquinas

Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.
Unknown

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.
Andy Rooney

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

Data without generalization is just gossip.
Robert Pirsig

Discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgi

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
Stephen Hawking

Don't remember what you can infer.
Harry Tennant

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Carl Zwanzig

Every dogma must have its day.
H. G. Wells

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every sentence that I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Niels Bohr

Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are delightful... Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana

First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.
Unknown

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

For my part, the longer I live the less I feel the need of any sort of theological belief, and the more I am content to let unseen powers go on their way with me and mine without question or distrust.
John Burroughs

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

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, and I can singlehandedly move the world.
Archimedes

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.
Unknown

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion -- i.e., none to speak of.
Robert A. Heinlein

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon

Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
Unknown

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov

I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
Marshall McLuhan

I predict that exact reproduction through cloning will not become popular. Too many people already find it difficult to live with themselves.
Jeanne Dixon

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde

I think, therefore I am.
René Descartes

I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.
Albert Einstein

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell

I'm still an atheist, thank God.
Luis Buñuel

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.
Thomas Carlyle

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
Art Hoppe

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
John Burroughs

If you love God, burn the church.
Jello Biafra

Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.
Mahatma Gandhi

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
P. L. Berger

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
Woody Allen

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
III Throop

Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune-tellers take economists seriously.
Unknown

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein

It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
Unknown

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
John Burroughs

It is bad luck to be superstitious.
Andrew W. Mathis

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

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
Woody Allen

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

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

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
Aristotle

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him.
Arthur C. Clarke

Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.
Godfried Bomans

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
Charles F. Kettering

Logic is like the sword -- those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler

Man is a credulous animal and must believe something. In the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand Russell

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill

Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
R. Drabek

Men don't change. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
Harry S Truman

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
Unknown

My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts!
Unknown

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.
Albert Einstein

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
Ashleigh Brilliant

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

Nature recycles itself. History repeats itself. Religion has faith in itself. Technology creates itself. Humanity loves itself.
Mark Putzke

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
Robert A. Heinlein

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
Lyman Beecher

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

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein

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

Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be nullified on behalf of a single petitioner, admittedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
Thomas Hobbes

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip K. Dick

relativity.
Albert Einstein

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell

Religion is the opiate of the masses.
Karl Marx

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Werner von Braun

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
Jr. Vonnegut

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Alan Turing

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell

Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton

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

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
John A. Locke

The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
Merrick Furst

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

The danger today is not so much that machines will learn to think and feel but that men will cease to do so.
Ferry

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
Jean-Paul Kauffmann

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

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
Jorge Luis Borges

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Chamfort

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
Friedrich Hegel

The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr

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.
Bertrand Russell

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner

The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
Unknown

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

The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is out there.
Chris Carter

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Theft from a single author is plagiarism. Theft from two is comparative study. Theft from three or more is research.
Unknown

There are no errors in this book, except this one.
Unknown

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli

There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.
Unknown

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

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
Paul Rudnick

There's always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
Henry Louis Mencken

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

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Unknown

To "be" means to be related.
Alfred Korzybski

To generalize is to be an idiot.
William Blake

To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.
Godfried Bomans

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen

Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.
Francis Bacon

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Unknown

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
Kerry Thornley

When they broke open molecules, they found they were filled with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found they were filled with explosions.
Unknown

Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.
Alfred Korzybski

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

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Bertolt Brecht

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