Leeds Astronomical Society - Information about this old-established society, and its activities. Details of membership, meetings, and events, including the annual Astromeet.
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"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
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-- Mark Russell Science Organisations Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Science Organisations blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Science Organisations
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
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-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Science Organisations A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Science Organisations
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Science Organisations It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Science Organisations
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Science Organisations Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
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-- Di Peatlins "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, Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
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-- Socrates Science Organisations
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Science Organisations Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
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-- Flannery O'Connor Science Organisations
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Science Organisations "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Science Organisations
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Science Organisations "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Science Organisations
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Science Organisations Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire 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 [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Science Organisations
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Science Organisations The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Science Organisations
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Science Organisations 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 Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
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