Hlohovec Public Observatory - Information about the observatory, its history and astronomy with a form for asking questions.
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Observatories You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Observatories
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Observatories 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 I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Observatories
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Observatories Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Observatories
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Observatories "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Observatories
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Observatories A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Observatories
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Observatories Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Observatories
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Observatories 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 I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Observatories
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Observatories Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Observatories
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Observatories "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 "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Observatories
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Observatories "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher '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
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Observatories Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Observatories
