Central Laboratory of Photoprocesses - An unit at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, whose main research activity is directed in the rapidly developing during the last years field of information technologies.
Institute of Organic Chemistry - Provides fundamental and applied scientific research, consulting and expert in the field of synthetic organic chemistry.
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Chemistry A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Chemistry
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Chemistry Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Chemistry
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Chemistry Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Chemistry
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Chemistry We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Chemistry
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Chemistry Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Chemistry
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Chemistry Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Chemistry
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Chemistry And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chemistry
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Chemistry When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Chemistry
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Chemistry Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Chemistry
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Chemistry A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Chemistry
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Chemistry Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Chemistry
