Institute of Astronomy - Carries out fundamental research in astronomy, astrophysics, and teaching specialists in this domain.
Institute of Solid State Physics - Specialized in fundamental and applied research in the field of condensed matter physics, optics, spectroscopy and laser physics.
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Physics There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Physics
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Physics 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) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Physics
My other wife is beautiful. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Physics I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Physics
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Physics Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Physics
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Physics The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Physics
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Physics I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Physics
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Physics If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Physics
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Physics Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Physics
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Physics Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Physics
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Physics "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Physics
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Physics When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Physics
