Szeged Astronomical Observatory - Operated by the Department of Experimental Physics of the University József Attila (JATE) and the Szeged Observatory Foundation since 1992.
Szekszard Observatory - Opened in 1966 the observatory is located on the hillside of Kálvária.
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Observatories We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Observatories
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Observatories I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Observatories
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Observatories Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Observatories
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Observatories "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Observatories
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Observatories And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Observatories
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Observatories The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Observatories
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken My other wife is beautiful. Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Observatories "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) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Observatories
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Observatories Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Observatories
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Observatories "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Observatories
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Observatories If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Observatories
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Observatories Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Observatories
