Butterflies of Poland - Database of butterfly species and their geographical distribution in Poland. Site at the Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun.
Pawel Kawalec Homepage - Private website of Pawel Kawalec, a philosophy researcher at the Catholic University of Lublin, with information about his publications, research projects and favourite links.
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Science and Environment Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Science and Environment
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Science and Environment "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Science and Environment
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Science and Environment Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Science and Environment
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Science and Environment 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 We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Science and Environment
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Science and Environment My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Science and Environment
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Science and Environment In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Science and Environment
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Science and Environment Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Science and Environment
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Science and Environment "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Science and Environment
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Science and Environment Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Science and Environment Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Science and Environment
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Science and Environment "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Science and Environment
