Down to Earth - An international conference on consumption and the consumer, taking place at the Grand Harbour Hotel, Southampton.
Southampton Environment Centre - Information and help with environmental issues. Site contains details of projects and clients, contact details, and useful links.
Southampton Mineral and Fossil Society - One of the oldest amateur mineral and fossil societies in the UK. Aiming foster interest and expertise in the collecting, conservation and identification of minerals and fossils.
Interpreting dinosaur/bird fossils - Presents a theory on the evolution of birds and dinosaurs, describing certain Cretaceous theropods as secondary flightless descendants of Archaeopteryx.
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 Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Science and Environment We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Science and Environment
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Science and Environment Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Science and Environment
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Science and Environment I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Science and Environment
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Science and Environment
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Science and Environment "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Science and Environment
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Science and Environment "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Science and Environment
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "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) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Science and Environment "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Science and Environment "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Science and Environment
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Science and Environment If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Science and Environment
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Science and Environment I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Science and Environment
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment 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 Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Science and Environment
