Institute of Geodynamics - Greece is considered to be the most seismically active country in Europe. The institute is aiming to study the fields of seismology, physics of Earth's interior and geophysics. Located in Athens.
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Science and Environment The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Science and Environment
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Science and Environment I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Science and Environment
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Science and Environment It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh My other wife is beautiful. Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Science and Environment
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Science and Environment Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Science and Environment
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Science and Environment "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Science and Environment
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Science and Environment "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Science and Environment
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Science and Environment We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Science and Environment What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Science and Environment
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Science and Environment My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Science and Environment
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Science and Environment "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Science and Environment
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Science and Environment "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Science and Environment
