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National Center for Scientific Research - French official research agency, conferences, press releases, databases, employment, policies, scientific departments and links. US Mirror site.
Anvar - National agency for the transfer of research to the industry.
Research and Technology Service of the French Presidency - Includes schedule of events, press releases, and terminology.
Bio-Logic - Science Instruments research lab. Rapid kinetics and spectroscopy, electrochemistry, physiology & neuroscience, digital data recorders.
CEA - The atomic energy agency, activities, organization, news, coming events, and links.
Dino Land - Interviews with paleontologists, news on recent fossil finds, virtual tours of famous fossil sites and museums, and a tribute to the greatest dinosaur discoveries of the century.
CADMOS - Features overview of a French center for microgravity experiments and space station utilization. Includes list of past missions.
Cereveh - Development and Innovation Centre for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles. Fosters research and innovation in the field of electric and hybrid vehicles, and encourages the development of innovative technologies with respect to electric transportation.
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) - The French Space Agency. Resource with information on space missions, general space science, launches and events in the national space programs.
Arboretum de Villardebelle - Dedicated to conifers from all over the world. Its main aim is to help protect rare and endangered species. Information on the various species held.
Bamboo Arboretum of Leriet - With 50 species. Virtual tour, catalogue and visitor information.
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, "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 Science and Environment I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, Science and Environment Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Science and Environment "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Science and Environment blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Science and Environment If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Science and Environment Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 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 Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Science and Environment I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Science and Environment Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Science and Environment I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken 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 He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Science and Environment Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Science and Environment There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Science and Environment There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy Science and Environment cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Science and Environment "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Science and Environment Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker 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 Science and Environment "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Science and Environment "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "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) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Science and Environment When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Science and Environment "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley >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 Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Science and Environment blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Science and Environment
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