jueves, 31 de enero de 2008

Aforismos

Too busy this week, I had no time to write anything, so I just want to share a great website I found yesterday:
Aphorisms Galore - Famous aphorisms.
The name tells all. I’ve been reading those about science and religion. Here are my favourites, classified as I see them (although some of them would fall into more than one category):

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

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

  • Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.

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

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

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

  • The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

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


    Reason / Ignorance:
  • A single fact can spoil a good argument.

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

  • I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

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

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

  • It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

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

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

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

  • My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

  • Strong words are required for weak principles.

  • The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.

  • The truth is more important than the facts.

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


    Relativism:
  • Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

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

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

  • It is bad luck to be superstitious.

  • No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

  • Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

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

  • The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

  • 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.

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

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


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

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

  • Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

  • Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

  • Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  • That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

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


Found via Libro de Notas, Zifra and Maikelnai.

He estado demasiado esta semana, así que no he tenido tiempo de escribir nada. De modo que solo quiero compartir un gran sitio web que encontré ayer:
Aphorisms Galore – Aforismos famosos.
El nombre lo dice todo. He estado leyendo los de ciencia y religión. Aquí están mis favoritas, clasificadas como las veo (aunque algunas pueden entrar en más de una categoría). No las traduzco por no desvirtuarlas, ya que la mayoría son originalmente anglosajonas, así que a aprender inglés.

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

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

  • Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.

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

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

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

  • The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

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


    Razón / Ignorancia:
  • A single fact can spoil a good argument.

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

  • I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

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

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

  • It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

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

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

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

  • My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

  • Strong words are required for weak principles.

  • The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.

  • The truth is more important than the facts.

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


    Relativismo:
  • Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

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

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

  • It is bad luck to be superstitious.

  • No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

  • Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

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

  • The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

  • 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.

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

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


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

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

  • Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

  • Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

  • Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  • That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

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


Encontrado vía Libro de Notas, Zifra y Maikelnai.

1 comentarios:

Anónimo dijo...

No se inglés, pero casi se me saltan las lentillas viendo que escribes "He hestado" ¿es un estado especial que provoca inconsciencia de "h" a diestro y siniestro?