Curie Institute - Research center in biology and physics located in Paris.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Biology "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Biology
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Biology "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Biology
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Biology No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Biology
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. 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 Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Biology To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Biology
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Biology Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Biology
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Biology Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Biology
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Biology blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Biology
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Biology A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Biology
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Biology It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Biology
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Biology Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Biology
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Biology What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Biology
