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Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research - Conducts research in the Arctic, the Antarctic and at temperate latitudes. It coordinates Polar research in Germany and provides both the necessary equipment and the essential logistic back up for polar expeditions.
Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work Science - Research institute for engineering science. Information technologies and production machinery. It participates in regional, national and European projects.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Institutions To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Institutions UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Institutions Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Institutions "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Institutions Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Institutions Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Institutions "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo Institutions The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac Institutions Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Institutions ... 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 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot 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 "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Institutions I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde Institutions 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 We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with Institutions Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous Institutions Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Institutions "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Institutions Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown Institutions Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein "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 We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers Institutions "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Institutions Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Institutions "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide Institutions The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht Institutions
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