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NIKHEF - The National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics.
CWI - The National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science Amsterdam.
AMOLF, Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics - A national research institute at the front end of the knowledge chain from fundamental result to application in society.
Morphology Digest - Archives of a formere electronic newsletter. It contains information on mathematical morphology, stochastic geometry, random set theory andimage algebra.
National Aerospace Laboratory - Independent non-profit research institute based in the Netherlands that carries out contract research for national and international customers.
Lorentz Centre - An international visitor/study center in the fields of astronomy, computer science, mathematics and physics.
Netherlands Development Assistance Research Council - Issues recommendations regarding how research that is funded by the Dutch government for the purpose of fostering development can best be attuned to the needs of developing countries.
UNESCO ASP Netherlands - ASP (Associated Schools Project) is a worldwide UNESCO network of schools. This is the site of the ASP-network in the Netherlands.
MRI - The Mathematical Research Institute (MRI) in the Netherlands promotes research, organises graduate courses and seminars and stimulates international contacts and exchange.
The N.W. Posthumus Institute - The Netherlands research institute and graduate school on economic and social history.
Forensic Laboratory for DNA Research - Goals, methods, contact information and references of this department of human genetics of Leiden university.
Materials Science Centre - MSC - News, events, organization, research and contact information of this part of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Groningen, forging interdisciplinary groups to bring together materials research within the condensed-matter community in the departments of physics and chemistry.
Sanbio b.v. - Distributes supplies to research institutions and biotechnology companies in the Benelux countries.
TAC Trade and Converting - Dutch company which buys and sells disposable products for both the food and the critical environment industry. Product, service details and contact information included.
Space Research Organization Netherlands (SRON) - National center for the development and exploitation of satellite instruments in astrophysics and earth system science in the Netherlands.
Dream Centre - On-line information about dreams and dreamwork and off-line courses in either English or Dutch.
Biotechnology in the Netherlands - Provides information about the companies and institutes active in the field of life sciences.
GET Groenmilieu, bv. - Specialist in environmentaly friendly water and waste treatment products. Based in Maassluis. (Dutch/English)
National Research Council NWO - The central Dutch organization in the field of fundamental and strategic scientific research. NWO encompasses all fields of scholarship.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Science and Environment My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton 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 Science and Environment Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Science and Environment The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Science and Environment "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen Science and Environment "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Science and Environment The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "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 Science and Environment "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Science and Environment If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein Science and Environment Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton Science and Environment "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle 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 Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Science and Environment Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous "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 Science and Environment "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain Science and Environment "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Science and Environment Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce Science and Environment Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Science and Environment To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril "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 Science and Environment "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Science and Environment There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Science and Environment My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West Science and Environment
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