Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia - Nautical charts and publications, hydrographic survey, sailing directions, notices to mariners, Morse's signals, radio service, hydrography and oceanography.
Institute of Physics - Devoted to basic research in the fields of physics of atoms, molecules and plasma and solid state physics including surface science.
Neandertals from Husnjakovo hill in Krapina - This archeological find is among the richest resources of Neanderthal artifacts in the world. Includes photos and descriptions of archeological finds.
Histria - The main idea of this web site is making a place on the web in order to spread knowledge about history and medical history in Southern Istria.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Science and Environment Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Science and Environment
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Science and Environment Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Science and Environment
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Science and Environment The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Science and Environment
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Science and Environment "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Science and Environment
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Science and Environment All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Science and Environment
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Science and Environment "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) 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 "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Science and Environment
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Science and Environment You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Science and Environment
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Science and Environment 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 A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Science and Environment
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Science and Environment "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Science and Environment
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Science and Environment Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Science and Environment
