Liverpool Astronomical Society - Latest news, information on observatories, society history and a list of its publications.
The Palm House - Victorian glasshouse in Sefton Park, containing plant specimens from around the world. Visitor information, history, souvenir sales, and information about private and corporate functions.
Liverpool RSPB Local Group - Information about meetings, events, places for birdwatching, news, and links.
Liverpool Museum - Museum of science and antiquities including a planetarium and a natural history centre. Details of collections and exhibitions, visitor information, and the work of their field archaeology unit.
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Science and Environment "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Science and Environment
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Science and Environment blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Science and Environment Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Science and Environment
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Science and Environment Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Science and Environment
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Science and Environment Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Science and Environment
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Science and Environment "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "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) Science and Environment
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Science and Environment ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Science and Environment
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Science and Environment I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Science and Environment
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Science and Environment
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Science and Environment I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Science and Environment
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Science and Environment Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Science and Environment
