NorNet: Northern Environmental Research Network - Cooperation network of northern Finnish environmental researchers which aims to support, integrate and profile northern research, expert and laboratory services and education.
Academy of Finland - Expert organization on research funding. Includes a directory of ongoing programs.
The Research Institute for the Languages of Finland - Studies and provides advice on the usage of Finnish, Swedish, the Finno-Ugric languages, Finnish Sign Language, and Romany, the language of the gypsies in Finland.
Federation of Finnish Learned Societies - A national body of societies from all branches of arts and sciences. Information about their services and publications.
Tekes - the National Technology Agency - The main financing organization for applied and industrial research and development, offering channels for cooperation with local companies, universities and research institutes.
Research.fi - Key statistics and other data on Finnish science and technology. Links to more in-depth information.
VTT: Technical Research Centre of Finland - An impartial expert organization that carries out technical and technoeconomic research and development. Operating units, service directory and publications.
Geological Survey of Finland - Research center that provides geoscientific information and services for assessment of raw materials, environmental studies, construction and land use planning.
Fungi in Finland and Sweden - Detailed photographs of hundreds of species, with notes on edibility. In Finnish, Swedish, and English.
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Science and Environment The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Science and Environment
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi ... 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
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Science and Environment
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Science and Environment A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Science and Environment
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Science and Environment You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Science and Environment
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Science and Environment "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Science and Environment
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Science and Environment "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Science and Environment
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Science and Environment In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Science and Environment Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Science and Environment
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Marriage is a rest period between romances. Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Science and Environment
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Science and Environment Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Science and Environment
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Science and Environment "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Science and Environment
